Forsand, Norway
Kjeragbolten
This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.
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Forsand, Norway
This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.
Gablenz, Germany
This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.
Las Heras Department, Argentina
Mineral springs believed to hold therapeutic properties draw in visitors from all over.
Puerto Río Tranquilo, Chile
Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.
New York, New York
This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.
Brooklyn, New York
This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.
Warsaw, Poland
After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.
Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.
Ketrzyn, Poland
This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.
Trondheim, Norway
The world's first and only escalator for lazy bicycles and their daunted riders.
Russia
Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.
Montségur, France
This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.
Huangshan, China
This short pedestrian span is also known as the "Fairy Walking Bridge" because it looks almost magical.
Krakow, Poland
This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.
New York, New York
A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.
Brooklyn, New York
This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.
Bury Saint Edmunds, England
The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.
Risoul, France
Since ancient times these picturesque springs have been providing bathers with healing waters.
Hamburg, Germany
Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.
Crymych, Wales
The Stonehenge of Wales is one of the grandest neolithic dolmens still in existence.
Tjentište, Bosnia and Herzegovina
These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.
Stromness, Scotland
Possibly the oldest of Britain's ancient henges is also one of its most stark.
Heidelberg, Germany
Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.
Lake George, New York
This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.