Cascais, Portugal
Boca do Inferno
A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.
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Cascais, Portugal
A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.
Sintra, Portugal
This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.
Sintra, Portugal
This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.
Sintra, Portugal
An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.
Évora, Portugal
"Portugal's Stonehenge" is made up of nut-like stones aligned with the heavens.
Lome, Togo
The Voodoo Superstore of the world.
Dakar, Senegal
This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.
Mauritania
A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.
Chinguetti, Mauritania
Five ancient libraries, little changed for centuries, preserve a medieval archive of Quranic lore and civic documents
Nouadhibou, Mauritania
The world's largest ship graveyard is the product of decades of corruption.
St. Marys, Georgia
Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.
Lospalos, Timor-Leste
This crocodile-infested Timor-Leste reservoir is also home to a spectacular half-sunken forest.
Delos, Greece
Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.
Mikonos, Greece
Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.
Istanbul, Turkey
A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.
Green Valley, Arizona
America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.
San Francisco, California
Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.
New York, New York
Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.
New York, New York
Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.
New York, New York
This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.
Key Biscayne, Florida
A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.
Louisville, Kentucky
The largest cemetery in Louisville is the final resting place of Col. Sanders and Muhammad Ali.
Versailles, Kentucky
This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.
Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.