Namerikawa, Japan
The Firefly Squid of Toyama Bay
Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Namerikawa, Japan
Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.
Saint-Bonnet-le-Château, France
Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.
Khewra, Pakistan
The world's second largest salt mine, said to have been discovered by Alexander the Great's horse.
Mexico City, Mexico
An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.
London, England
A student driver's nightmare.
East Jerusalem, Israel
A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.
Phonsavan, Laos
Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.
Gorna krepost, Bulgaria
An ancient Thracian city where fire rituals were practiced on the largest cult altar in Southeast Europe.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Palermo, Italy
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
Adelaide, Australia
Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.
Lambayeque, Peru
The shockingly unspoiled Peruvian tomb of the Lord of Sipan was once guarded by a footless warrior.
Montségur, France
This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.
Paris, France
Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.
Darmstadt, Germany
A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.
Waldsassen, Germany
Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.
Büren, Germany
This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.
Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany
Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.
Calhan, Colorado
Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.
Shaoguan, China
Unique geological formations in China, featuring some suggestive shapes.
Datong, China
A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.
Ashkelon, Israel
These numerous Israeli caves were dug out over hundreds years for reasons ranging from hideouts to burial sites.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.
Dunwich, England
A village on the east coast of England that has almost completely eroded into the North Sea.