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Wufeng Mushroom Museum

Taichung City, Taiwan

Wufeng Mushroom Museum

An unassuming museum offers a deep dive into everything about mushrooms, from cultivation innovations to fungi that "talk."

921 Earthquake Museum

Taichung City, Taiwan

921 Earthquake Museum

A once-shattered school now preserves a visible fault line, showcasing Taiwan's traumatic 1999 earthquake.

Ghost Lore Museum

Jiufen, Taiwan

Ghost Lore Museum

A museum about rituals, ghosts, and demons from around Asia, set in the middle of the peaceful Jiufen.

Scallion cyclists greet you at the entrance.

Su'ao, Taiwan

Sanshing Green Onion Culture Palace

Eat green onion ice cream and other allium-centric treats at this unusual museum.

Wind City Moon Restaurant

Zhubei City, Taiwan

Wind City Moon Restaurant

A nostalgic restaurant evokes life in Taiwan from the 1940s to the 1970s.

The Dome of Light

Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

The Dome of Light

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

The Bessie Sheppard memorial stone.

Mansfield, England

Bessie Sheppard Stone

This lonely memorial marks the supposedly haunted site of a brutal 19th-century murder.

The site of the second defenestration of Prague.

Prague, Czechia

Defenestration of Prague Window

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Ferry to Cape Wrath across the Kyle of Durness.

Keoldale, Scotland

Cape Wrath

The farthest northwesterly point of the British mainland is one of the most remote places in the Scottish Highlands.

Smoo Cave interior.

Durness, Scotland

Smoo Cave

A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past

A microscope focused on the leg of a mosquito - marching across it is a near invisible menagerie of colorful animals, from cheetahs to giraffes to elephants.

Prague, Czechia

Museum of Miniatures

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

Archaeology exhibit inside the Athens airport

Greece

Archeological Exhibit at Athens International Airport

These artifacts were discovered during the construction of the airport, with some dating back to the Neolithic period.

First Cemetery of Athens.

Athens, Greece

First Cemetery of Athens

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

A hoard of gold coins from Epidaurus, 3rd century BCE.

Athens, Greece

Numismatic Museum of Athens

One of the greatest collections of coins in the world is housed in the former mansion of an archeological pioneer.

A 1992 blurry image of a woman.

Bélmez de la Moraleda, Spain

Bélmez Faces

Mysterious face-like images that appeared within an Andalusian house are surrounded by legends of the paranormal.

Cave Moon, interior galleries

Titulcia, Spain

Cave of the Moon

Mysterious Spanish catacombs of unknown origins.

Wamba Ossuary

Wamba, Spain

Wamba Ossuary

One of the largest ossuaries in Spain is packed from floor to ceiling with bones.

Los Jameos del Agua

Haría, Spain

Los Jameos del Agua

Partially collapsed lava tube and cave system complete with concert hall, underground pond, and unique albino crabs.

El Caminito del Rey (The King's Little Pathway)

Ardales, Spain

El Caminito del Rey (The King's Little Pathway)

Spanning the El Chorro gorge, this pathway used to be one of the most dangerous crossings in the world.

Laguna Rosa, Torrevieja, Spain

Torrevieja, Spain

The Pink Lake of Torrevieja

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.

Calder Mercury Fountain

Barcelona, Spain

Calder Mercury Fountain

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

Foundations of temple with tanks inside.

Vale de Nogueiras, Portugal

Santuário Rupestre de Panóias (Panoias Sanctuary)

This Gallo-Roman sanctuary is dedicated to Serápis, god of the underworld.

The 516 Arouca Bridge is suspended above the Paiva River.

Arouca, Portugal

Ponte 516 Arouca

One of the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridges.

Capela de São Miguel with living rock graves in foreground.

Monsanto, Portugal

Necropolis of São Miguel

A windswept necropolis carved into the rocks overlooks the "most Portuguese town in Portugal."

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