Seattle, Washington
Connections Museum
This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.
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Seattle, Washington
This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.
Budapest, Hungary
From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.
Bermuda
The abandoned Bermudian home of a British naval leader is surrounded by crumbling sporting fields and the graves of convicts.
Iceland
Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.
Panguipulli, Chile
This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.
Eskifjorður, Iceland
This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.
Ämari, Estonia
This soviet pilot's graveyard is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.
Islamorada, Florida
This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.
New Orleans, Louisiana
By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.
Jasenovac, Croatia
Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.
Seattle, Washington
This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.
Landsborough, Australia
This abandoned railroad tunnel is now home to a micro-colony of bats and a ghost train.
Puno, Peru
On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.
Rocky Hill, Connecticut
The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.
Joliet, Illinois
What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.
Langwarrin, Australia
For better or worse, this whimsical sculpture garden was a favorite place of Rupert Murdoch's.
Luoyang, China
The field of tiny caves that mark this Chinese cliffside are each their own historic Buddhist temple.
Vers-Pont-du-Gard, France
This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.
Antarctica
These passages carved from the Antarctic ice hold strange shrines to the harsh southernmost climes.
Chelsea, Oklahoma
This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.
Temoaya, Mexico
This ceremonial Mexican square looks as though it belongs in a science fiction movie.
Waiotapu, New Zealand
This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.
Renton, Washington
The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.
Palatine, Illinois
Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.