San Diego, California
Sunny Jim Cave Store
Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.
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San Diego, California
Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.
San Diego, California
An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.
San Diego, California
One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.
Duluth, Minnesota
This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.
Darwin, Minnesota
17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.
Cloquet, Minnesota
The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.
Talkeetna, Alaska
This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.
Lidumnieki, Latvia
This abandoned secret city is a crumbling wonderland of Soviet ruins.
North Pole, Alaska
An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.
Mexico City, Mexico
An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.
Ishinomaki, Japan
On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.
Takehara, Japan
Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.
Adak, Alaska
America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.
Ellicott City, Maryland
Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.
La Cañada Flintridge, California
An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.
Odesa, Ukraine
The largest catacomb system in the world.
Lexington, Oregon
Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.
Ballymoney, Northern Ireland
The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.
Faro, Portugal
This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.
Hagley, England
An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.
Suomussalmi, Finland
Menacing or in memoriam, the Silent People and their meaning are left to interpretation.
Naftah, Tunisia
Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.