Ecosystems

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

Small Chinese fishing village impeccably maintained for visitors.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.

Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.

Tribute to the famous Notre Dame football coach who died in a plane crash.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

One of the largest burial mounds in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.

Devastated landscape used for hundreds of years by the Romans as their primary mining site.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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