Changsha, China
Giant Head of Mao Zedong
The world's largest statue of Mao Zedong looks out over the city where he discovered Communism.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Changsha, China
The world's largest statue of Mao Zedong looks out over the city where he discovered Communism.
Gwynedd, Wales
A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."
Pioneertown, California
A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.
Los Angeles, California
This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.
Waxahachie, Texas
A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.
Iceland
This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.
Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.
Los Angeles, California
This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.
San Francisco, California
A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.
Yosemite National Park, California
The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.
Tonopah, Nevada
The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.
Kruševac, Serbia
Curious carved stones and bird-like wings are a symbol of Serbian resilience and freedom on the site of a WWII massacre.
Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A forgotten and crumbling Yugoslav monument to the victims of fascism.
Dera, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.
Novo Selo Palanječko, Croatia
A tower marking the spot where Yugoslavia began its resistance against the invading Nazis stands neglected, but not quite forgotten.
Podgarić, Croatia
This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.
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.
Petra District, Jordan
An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.
Elberton, Georgia
A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.
Reykjavik, Iceland
An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.
Munich, Germany
A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
London, England
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
Portugal
A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.