Most Recent Places

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

A bizarre collection of gifts to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il from the despots of the world.

A beautiful opera house in the heart of Amazonia has recently restarted performances after a 90-year hiatus.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

Hidden out of public view in the National Library of Israel is a collection of "Stalag's," 1960s Nazi themed porno paperbacks written and consumed by Israelis.

A huge cathedral single-handedly constructed by one eccentric monk.

Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

A massive, heart-shaped, wind-carved crater in the middle of the Israeli desert.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

The short-lived history of a new republic and British control in West Florida.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.