Montpelier, Vermont
Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial
A lonely memorial to the Challenger Space Shuttle, honoring the astronauts who died in 1986.
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Montpelier, Vermont
A lonely memorial to the Challenger Space Shuttle, honoring the astronauts who died in 1986.
Dallas, Texas
This sculpture of a bowler hat is complemented by a matching umbrella a few blocks away.
Marfa, Texas
Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.
Marfa, Texas
With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.
Marfa, Texas
Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.
Nathrop, Colorado
This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.
Warren, Ohio
The oldest remaining authentic Putt-Putt course that Donald Clayton created in Ohio.
Seattle, Washington
This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.
Palm Springs, California
Instead of faces, these sculptures have barcodes—statements on societal dehumanization.
Cohoes, New York
A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.
Troy, New York
This relic of 19th-century infrastructure is one of the few remaining coal gas storage tanks in the U.S.
Sanford, Florida
This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.
Faro, Portugal
This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.
Meyrin, Switzerland
The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.
Meyrin, Switzerland
CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.
Meyrin, Switzerland
This statue of a Hindu cosmic dancer at CERN is a metaphor for modern physics.
Meyrin, Switzerland
Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.
Wingen, Australia
6000-year-old coal fire moves one meter per year.
Dresden, Germany
Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.
Atlanta, Georgia
Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.
Washington, D.C.
Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Quemado, New Mexico
In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.
Butte, Montana
New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.