Bridgeport, Connecticut
The Frisbie Pie Company
The location of the pie company that gave a classic toy its name is now a parking lot.
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Bridgeport, Connecticut
The location of the pie company that gave a classic toy its name is now a parking lot.
Kumistavi, Georgia
This neon lit Georgian cave claims to hold the boulder Prometheus was chained to.
Sandakan, Malaysia
In this Borneo cave, it's not the thousands of bats you need to worry about, it's the blankets of roaches.
Brookville, Kansas
Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.
Wichita, Kansas
A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.
Lindsborg, Kansas
Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.
Hutchinson, Kansas
Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.
Los Angeles, California
Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.
Monterey, California
The oldest continuously operating church in California.
Paris, France
Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.
Paris, France
A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.
Paris, France
This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.
Warsaw, Poland
Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.
Rayne, Louisiana
The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.
Paris, France
The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.
Mexico City, Mexico
Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.
Narsarsuaq, Greenland
An experimental forest at the foreground of arboreal science is also the canary in the coal mine for climate change.
Sulzbach, Germany
Germany has its very own Centralia, whose spark remains attributed to "spontaneous combustion."
Saguenay, Québec
After he picked up a brush at the age of 47 this simple barber turned his entire home into a canvas.