Jekyll Island, Georgia
DuBignon Cemetery
A modest walled graveyard where nobody is actually buried.
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Jekyll Island, Georgia
A modest walled graveyard where nobody is actually buried.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
A 6,888-carat piece of turquoise that bears a striking resemblance to the first President of the United States.
Lalitpur, Nepal
An ancient art form is kept alive in this corner of Nepal.
Townville, South Carolina
A 1960s damming project turned one family’s hilltop cemetery into an island.
Cayce, South Carolina
A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.
St. John's, Isle of Man
Believed to be the former location of one of the earliest Viking assemblies in Europe.
Pelham, Tennessee
An ancient cave system in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills converted to a 1,200-person music venue.
Livingston, Scotland
Scotland is filled with standing stones that date back hundreds or thousands of years. This is not one of them.
Outer Hebrides, Scotland
When a missile testing site was proposed near this site in the Outer Hebrides, this statue was commissioned in response.
Seattle, Washington
The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.
London, England
According to legend, this tomb holds the secrets to time travel.
Weston, Missouri
A vineyard devoted entirely to an unexplored flavor frontier.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.
London, England
One man's attempt to stay one step ahead of the church.
Aiea, Hawaii
A unique collection of Western and Japanese-style graves.
Rangeley, Maine
Hidden among the trees at the Rangeley Lakes Trails Center are more than 20 gnomes in small wooden houses.
Kappern, Austria
Is this a portal to another side of the cosmos?
Kailua, Hawaii
Hidden behind a YMCA stands the remains of a ceremonial site that dates back hundreds of years, whose ground is still considered sacred to many Hawaiians.
Mochrum, Scotland
These stones date back to the 3rd or 2nd millennium B.C.
Mexico City, Mexico
The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.
Glentrool, Scotland
On a hill overlooking Loch Trool, a granite boulder marks the site where Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, defeated an English army.
Lendalfoot, Scotland
Near this coastal cave stands a small memorial to the hermit who made it his home for three decades.
Creetown, Scotland
A gap marks the spot where a now-missing stone once completed the circular arrangement at this Neolithic site.
Rushen, Isle of Man
On the southwestern tip of the Isle of Man, a stone monument to one of the island's great conservationists.