Balshoon, Syria
Dead City of Serjilla
A 1,500-year-old ghost settlement is slowly fading away.
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Balshoon, Syria
A 1,500-year-old ghost settlement is slowly fading away.
Bicheno, Australia
Granite rocks that concentrate waves into powerful jets.
Freycinet, Australia
One of the best beaches in the entire world.
De Koog, Netherlands
The history of sea-faring refuse and disaster is on cramped display in this Netherlands folk museum.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The history and future of cannabis.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Museum preserving torture methods from the past.
Essen, Germany
The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.
Wuppertal, Germany
This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.
Rotorua, New Zealand
Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.
Lake Tarawera, New Zealand
A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.
Waitomo, New Zealand
Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.
Auckland, New Zealand
A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.
Kandovan, Iran
Modern-day cave dwellers carve elaborate homes out of volcanic debris.
Wieliczka, Poland
An underground city of salt.
Haspra, Ukraine
A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.
Sevastopol, Ukraine
In the land of the Light Brigade stands a testament to the Cold War.
Odesa, Ukraine
The largest catacomb system in the world.
Tiraspol, Moldova
A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.
Milestii Mici, Moldova
The largest wine cellar in the world is a 150-mile network of underground caves near the capital of Moldova.
Homestead, Florida
A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.
Riga, Latvia
Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.
Riga, Latvia
3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.
Kaali, Estonia
Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.