Balestrino, Italy
Balestrino Ghost Village
Abandoned medieval hill town.
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Balestrino, Italy
Abandoned medieval hill town.
Ettal, Germany
A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."
London, England
Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.
Dresden, Germany
When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.
Trethevy, England
A unique waterfall that some believe attracts the fairfolk.
Dargavs, Russia
This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.
Union, Connecticut
This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.
Namibia
The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.
Prypiat, Ukraine
This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.
Coverham, England
A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.
Sparta, Tennessee
Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.
Xilitla, Mexico
Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.
Chamoli, India
A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.
Wicklow, Ireland
An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.
Lichtenstein, Germany
A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.
Montreal, Québec
Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.
Hope, British Columbia
Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.
White Post, Virginia
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.
Bronx, New York
Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.
Fort Collins, Colorado
This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.
Iceland
The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.
Saint Blazey, England
The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.
Bern, Switzerland
A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.