Guadalajara, Mexico
Panteón de Belen (Santa Paula Cemetery)
This historic cemetery built for victims of the epidemics that swept Guadalajara is shrouded in macabre tales.
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Guadalajara, Mexico
This historic cemetery built for victims of the epidemics that swept Guadalajara is shrouded in macabre tales.
Hilo, Hawaii
This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.
Lucknow, India
This magnificent 18th-century hall consists of a maze of nearly a thousand interconnected passages.
Tallassee, Tennessee
Abandoned for 60 years, this submerged bridge was completely forgotten until the lake was drained.
Sant Adrià de Besòs, Spain
The unexpectedly beloved remnants of a controversial thermal power plant.
Clachan-Seil, Scotland
The "Bridge Over the Atlantic" lets you cross the waterway in mere seconds.
Vandalia, Illinois
Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.
Ronda, Spain
The hidden ruins of an old hydroelectric plant reclaimed by nature.
Orchha, India
These medieval funerary monuments are now home to a colony of critically endangered vultures.
Aguascalientes, Mexico
A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.
Encarnación de Díaz, Mexico
An impressive if morbid collection of mummified remains from different eras of the region's history.
Tallinn, Estonia
Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.
Medellín, Colombia
An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Dubuque, Iowa
For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.
Amman, Jordan
An oasis of shade and color amidst the bustle of the old city.
Tende, France
Tens of thousands of ancient rock carvings hidden in the heart of a French national park.
Seoul, South Korea
Step into a cartoon at this Seoul café that aims to evoke a two-dimensional scene.
Metten, Germany
This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.
San Francisco, California
Condemned US Navy seaplane control tower turned officers’ club sits atop Yerba Buena Island.
San Francisco, California
Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.
San Francisco, California
Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.
San Francisco, California
This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.
San Francisco, California
This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.