Whittier, Alaska
Portage Ghost Town
The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.
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Whittier, Alaska
The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.
Al Madam, United Arab Emirates
An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.
Chornobyl, Ukraine
The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Austin, Texas
A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.
Austin, Texas
A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.
Austin, Texas
This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.
Austin, Texas
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.
Austin, Texas
A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.
Glasgow, Scotland
An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.
Schorfheide, Germany
This former Soviet military base has over 10 original aircraft and an enormous amount of memorabilia on display.
Anderby Creek, England
The world’s first dedicated cloud observation platform.
Yelverton, England
The site of a mysterious pony massacre is rich with extraterrestrial conspiracy theories.
Opole Lubelskie County, Poland
A monument to Poland's famous alleged UFO abduction case.
Capel Saint Andrew, England
The scene of the United Kingdom's most famous UFO incident, dubbed the "British Roswell."
Pāhoa, Hawaii
A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.
Ilkley, England
This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.
Denver, Colorado
The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.
Lynn, Massachusetts
A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.
Edinburgh, Scotland
One of Edinburgh's oldest pubs hides a 19th-century skittles alley in the back.
London, England
A bronze bust commemorates the heroism of the secret agents who led covert operations against the Nazis.
Munich, Germany
These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.
Munich, Germany
The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.
Concord, Massachusetts
The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.