East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
Padar Island
Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.
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East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.
Talkeetna, Alaska
This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.
Zakinthos, Greece
Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.
Yonkers, New York
America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.
Shengshan Island, China
This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.
Tallahassee, Florida
The ruins of a once massive plantation are now a private residence hidden in the Florida wilderness.
Grünwald, Germany
This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.
Turda, Romania
This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.
Tijeras, New Mexico
The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.
Fackler, Alabama
This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.
Brighton, England
This tunnel entrance is built to resemble a grand castle but no one is quite sure why.
Guatemala City, Guatemala
An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.
Charlotte, North Carolina
A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.
East Sussex, England
England's most notorious suicide spot.
Saty, Kazakhstan
Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.
Key Biscayne, Florida
An underwater city for the dead.
West Sumatra, Indonesia
This Sumatran root bridge took almost 30 years to knit itself together.
Lake Wales, Florida
Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.
Millbrook, Alabama
The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.
Langfang Shi, China
Where better to stay the night than inside a trio of ancient Chinese deities representing "the good life."
Nashville, Tennessee
When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.
Nashville, Tennessee
The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.