Grand Marais, Michigan
Pickle Barrel House
This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.
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Grand Marais, Michigan
This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.
Oxford, Mississippi
William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.
Washington, D.C.
Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.
Boston, Massachusetts
Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.
Hamelin Pool, Australia
Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.
Queens, New York
This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.
Honolulu, Hawaii
The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.
Rosemount, Minnesota
The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.
Kilauea, Hawaii
A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.
Lincoln, New Hampshire
Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.
Verona, Wisconsin
Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.
Ennenda, Switzerland
The last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe is remembered in this Swiss museum.
Paris, Texas
In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.
Sister Bay, Wisconsin
Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.
Punta Arenas, Chile
The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.
Summerville, Georgia
Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.
Dingolfing, Germany
In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.
Two Rocks, Australia
An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.
Wingdale, New York
An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.
Berlin, Germany
This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.
Genk, Belgium
What was once a bustling mining installation is now a bustling hub of contemporary art.
Havana, Cuba
After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.
Berlin, Germany
Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.
Adalar, Turkey
Over the centuries, this island paradise has done it all, from providing monks with ecclesiastical respite to sheltering an exiled Leon Trotsky.