Fethiye, Turkey
Lycian Rock Tombs
These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.
Places I've been
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Fethiye, Turkey
These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.
Kent, Washington
Tasked with beautifying a disused stretch of industrial land one artist filled a hole with grass.
Holbrook, Arizona
For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.
Asheville, North Carolina
The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.
Chicago, Illinois
Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.
Valletta, Malta
Both the World War II Allied Forces and NATO have used this modern bunker underneath Malta’s capital.
Prague, Czechia
The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.
Tangier, Morocco
Along the most northwestern point in Africa is an ancient cave surrounded by legends.
Tamura, Japan
These wondrously illuminated caverns extend under the mountains of the Fukushima Prefecture.
Burnet, Texas
An immense cave that has served as an outlaw's treasure trove, an underground dance hall, a nuclear fallout shelter, and much more.
San Francisco, California
This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.
Guadalupe, California
Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.
Uozu-shi, Japan
Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.
Yermo, California
Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.
Henderson, Nevada
A retired schoolteacher in suburban Nevada transformed his front yard into a paleontological menagerie.
Benevento, Italy
Unscathed for almost 2,000 years, the best preserved Roman triumphal arch is in a small southern Italian city.
Hindhead, England
This curious gravestone tells the legend of an unknown mariner's grisly murder.
New York, New York
A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.
New York, New York
A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.
New York, New York
This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.
New York, New York
Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.
New York, New York
Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.
New York, New York
An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.