Rome, Italy
Porta Alchemica
An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.
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Rome, Italy
An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Komiža, Croatia
An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.
Paris, France
One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.
Aksaray, Turkey
In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.
Antarctica
Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.
Baku, Azerbaijan
Mysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fire.
New York, New York
Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.
Salem, Massachusetts
The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
Paris, France
Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Iceland
The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.
Portland, Oregon
Beyond being incredibly fun, not much can be said about the Hole with certitude.
Abhaneri, India
Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
Paris, France
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.
London, England
Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.
Prague, Czechia
Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.
Hólmavík, Iceland
Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.
Averøy, Norway
A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.
London, England
The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.
Australia
An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.
Daniel Campos, Bolivia
A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.