Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
Lester Rowntree Native Plant Garden
Named for a self-taught botanist who cataloged hundreds of native plants, this garden continues her work of preserving California plant life.
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Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
Named for a self-taught botanist who cataloged hundreds of native plants, this garden continues her work of preserving California plant life.
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Known as the Hintz House, this medieval pharmacy has been an apothecary's haven for nearly 450 years.
London, England
Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Monticello, Iowa
Spend the night in this former asylum for the incurably insane, which claims to be one of the most haunted places in the United States.
Rome, Italy
Italian horror legend Dario Argento’s own shop hides a sinister museum-dungeon in the basement.
Mudurnu, Turkey
The only residents of this abandoned housing development full of identical castles are stray cats and dogs.
Pantelleria, Italy
This ancient walled garden turns fog into food.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Modhera, India
An architectural marvel that dates back to the zenith of Indian architecture.
Rome, Italy
This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.
Florence, Italy
The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.
Odessa, Ukraine
A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.
Cádiz, Spain
The ruins of a 2,000-year-old Roman fishing village perched on one of the best beaches in Spain.
Atlanta, Georgia
This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.
Oxford, England
Inside this church is an obscure piece of art carved by the famous Alice Liddell.
Brno, Czechia
A cheeky architectural easter egg.
London, England
A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.
Beirut, Lebanon
Beirut's thinnest building was the result of feuding brothers.
Chicago, Illinois
A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.
Denver, Colorado
A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.
Improvement District No. 24, Alberta
The half-mile long structure is so impressive, it even shows up on satellite images.
Stekene, Belgium
Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.