Chicago, Illinois
Hidden Egyptian Temple in Field Museum Break Room
Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.
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Chicago, Illinois
Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.
Chicago, Illinois
A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.
Carbon County, Utah
Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.
Richland, Washington
Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.
West Glacier, Montana
This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.
Bozeman, Montana
See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.
Skagway, Alaska
A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.
Fairbanks, Alaska
One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.
Kiruna, Sweden
The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.
Boden N, Sweden
A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.
Averøy, Norway
A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.
Älvdalen S, Sweden
The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.
Bergen, Norway
Stay overnight in the world's most sleekly designed rabbit hole, free of charge.
Hanover, Germany
An extraordinary mechanical calculator designed by the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz.
Stockholm, Sweden
This Stockholm light tower can be controlled by anyone with a smartphone.
Berlin, Germany
A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.
Berlin, Germany
The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.
Berlin, Germany
A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.
Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.
Stockholm, Sweden
A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.
Västerås, Sweden
A floating underwater hotel, created by a Swedish artist.
Oslo, Norway
A small collection of magic tricks and memorabilia is now an apartment-sized museum.
Cuxhaven, Germany
WWII rocket launchpad in rural Germany and site of operation backfire.
Hamburg, Germany
Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.