Monte, Portugal
Toboggan Ride from Monte to Funchal
Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."
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Monte, Portugal
Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."
Osaka, Japan
The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.
Bermuda
The world's smallest drawbridge.
New Hartford, Connecticut
Who knew the Devil's domain was a hot spot for tubing?
Weston-super-Mare, England
The world's largest museum devoted solely to the whirlybird comes complete with its own chopper graveyard.
Cheddar, England
Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.
Glastonbury, England
Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.
Bridgwater, England
The metal frame is all that's left of a wicker sculpture which once towered over the M5 motorway.
Williton, England
A collection of retro plastic goods made with "the material of a thousand uses."
Burnham-on-Sea, England
The unusual stilted beacon is the town's only active lighthouse.
Algarrobo, Chile
A record-breaking pool that uses computers to turn ocean water into cleaner, private swimming water.
Concepción, Chile
The ruins of a grand theater destroyed during the most powerful seismic catastrophe ever recorded.
Concepción, Chile
Dedicated to the first German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, this aging edifice is the only one of its kind in the Americas.
Lota, Chile
The hellish conditions of this abandoned mine that snakes beneath the Pacific Ocean gave it its diabolic name.
Collipulli, Chile
This bright yellow bridge is a true engineering feat.
Refugio Villarrica, Chile
One of Chile's most active volcanoes is riddled with beautiful caves.
Cushamen, Argentina
With the Wild Bunch hunted almost to extinction and the law closing in on him, Butch Cassidy fled to this remote cabin in Argentina.
Puerto Río Tranquilo, Chile
Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.
Sarmiento Department, Argentina
An ancient forest of the Paleocene Age turned to stone.
Deseado Department, Argentina
Conifers from the Jurassic Period transformed into stone in Patagonia.
Argentina
Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.
Natales, Chile
An unrecognized micronation declared by Greenpeace to protect the glaciers of Chile.
Falkland Islands
An abandoned suspension bridge on the Falkland Islands is crumbling into the water.
Ushuaia, Argentina
This plaza at the end of the world teems with monumental tributes to a problematic history, and laser discs.