Isle of Staffa, Scotland
Fingal's Cave
This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.
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Isle of Staffa, Scotland
This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.
London, England
An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.
London, England
One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.
London, England
A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.
London, England
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
London, England
Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.
London, England
The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.
Moscow, Russia
This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Moscow, Russia
Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.
Russia
What was once the base for Russia's first nature reserve is now a ghost town, right on the shore of Lake Baikal.
Evenkiysky District, Russia
Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.
Zaña, Peru
After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.
Yagodninsky District, Russia
Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.
Mirny, Russia
The world's second-largest excavated hole.
Khangalassky District, Russia
A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.
Antarctica
An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mount Nyiragongo has erupted at least 34 times since 1882 and is home to the world's largest lava lake.
Qaradagh, Azerbaijan
Complete town of 5,000 living out at sea on the world's first offshore oil platform.
Corella, Philippines
A patch of Philippines forest devoted to saving the lives of an emotionally sensitive species of googly-eyed primates.
Antarctica
The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.
Sierra Bullones, Philippines
Bohol's unusually shaped hills turn brown in the summer months.
Baku, Azerbaijan
Mysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fire.
Qobustan, Azerbaijan
Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan is home to a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape.
Antarctica
Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.