Alofi, Niue
Niue
A tiny, remote island packed with wonders both natural and geeky.
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Alofi, Niue
A tiny, remote island packed with wonders both natural and geeky.
Vanuatu
The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.
Nauru
"The country that ate itself."
Nanwei, Micronesia
The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.
Inyo County, California
Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.
Province de Ouarzazate, Morocco
An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."
San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
A massive display of meteorites all found in the Atacama Desert.
Winterhaven, California
The remnants of an early automobile route across shifting sand dunes can still be found in the deserts of Southern California.
Nefta, Tunisia
The original movie set for the home of 'Star Wars' hero Luke Skywalker.
Qatar
Four steel monoliths stand in the Qatari desert, in a breathtaking work of large-scale art by Richard Serra.
Tangier, Morocco
Along the most northwestern point in Africa is an ancient cave surrounded by legends.
Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales
A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.
Berkeley, California
The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.
Charlottesville, Virginia
The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.
Boston, Massachusetts
In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.
Syracuse, New York
A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.
West Lafayette, Indiana
Purdue students would lean over this iron fence to skirt campus rules against smoking and courting.
Columbia, Missouri
Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.
Opalton, Australia
These tracks are believed to be from a panicked dinosaur stampede.
Enciso, Spain
Hundreds of preserved dinosaur footprints can be found along a hiking trail in this small village.
Namibia
Tracks of ceratosaurus and Coelophysis rhodesiensis tracks can be found fossilized in the sandstone near Mt. Etjo.
Sousa, Brazil
One of the few places in the world where visitors can walk alongside fossilized tracks from 80 different dinosaur species.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.
Nykøbing Falster, Denmark
This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.