Hope Valley, England
The Crazy Pinnacle
There's a strange stone hoodoo towering atop a wooded hillside and no one is quite sure how it got there.
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Hope Valley, England
There's a strange stone hoodoo towering atop a wooded hillside and no one is quite sure how it got there.
Sheffield, England
One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.
Omaha, Nebraska
A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.
Utrecht, Netherlands
This still-celebrated home was a radical architectural experiment in 3D De Stijl.
Eindhoven, Netherlands
A UFO-shaped event building originally intended to be a science museum showcasing the future.
Xanten, Germany
Take a walk in a recreation of ancient Rome.
Oss, Netherlands
One of the largest burial mounds in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Berdorf, Luxembourg
This Luxembourg cave is covered in cryptic looking marks left by mining activity.
Lübeck, Germany
A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.
Ashwell, England
Historical etchings such as “Miserable, wild, distracted 1350" and “The Archdeacon is an ass.”
Frankfurt, Germany
This German fountain of a legendary apple wine-loving drink thief will spit on you.
Orost, Iran
Iran's colorful terraces are a rare geological masterpiece.
Niederfinow, Germany
This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.
Sillamäe, Estonia
This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.
Lübeck, Germany
Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.
Carthage, Tunisia
An ancient burial ground believed to have been used for ritual sacrifice.
Essen, Germany
The monumental home of Prussia’s eccentric "Cannon King."
Torcross, England
A disastrous D-Day rehearsal was relatively unknown until this sunken tank was discovered 40 years later.
Pisa, Italy
The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.
Carnoët, France
A remote hilltop covered in giant monoliths haunts the Brittany countryside.
Island Park, Idaho
A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.
Whitehaven, England
Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.