Granite Falls, Washington
Lime Kiln Trail
Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.
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Granite Falls, Washington
Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.
Villar del Pozo, Spain
An abandoned airport in the middle of nowhere.
Malinalco, Mexico
The ruins of a former sanctuary for elite Aztec warriors.
Raisen, India
A giant repository of accidentally discovered cave paintings up to 30,000 years old.
Niigata, Japan
Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.
Islandmagee, Northern Ireland
This Bronze Age tomb makes the most unusual front garden fixture.
Port Talbot, Wales
The world’s only museum dedicated to baked beans.
Chevy Chase, Maryland
The wooded estate of the Forest Service employee responsible for D.C.’s cherry blossom trees.
La Palma, Spain
These crevices cut into the mountains collect the island’s main source of precious freshwater.
Montville, Connecticut
The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.
Jiblah, Yemen
One of Yemen’s oldest and most beautiful mosques was named for the incredible, historical queen buried inside it.
Darmstadt, Germany
The zoological collection at the Hessisches Landesmuseum hosts some of the world's oldest habitat dioramas.
Karachi, Pakistan
This commanding mausoleum holds the remains of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.
Mexico City, Mexico
The F1 Mexican Grand Prix circuit goes right through the middle of this old baseball stadium.
London, England
This peaceful park with centuries of history hides in an overlooked section of South London.
Brooklyn, New York
A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.
Itagüi, Colombia
The (usually) serene burial place of the world's most notorious drug lord.
Santiago, Mexico
This spot along the 23.5 degree north parallel marks the northern boundary of the tropics.
Stockholm, Sweden
A 1:42 scale model of the world's second largest lensed telescope.
Raleigh, Newfoundland and Labrador
A remote landmark named for a whimsical photograph taken by a 1850s photographer and his crew of graffiti artists.
Salina, Utah
Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.
Cairndow, Scotland
A rare permanent monument to the Scottish Travellers.
Leiden, Netherlands
Once the world's biggest telescope, it was later used as a coat hanger by a famous Dutch astronomer.
Roscoe, Illinois
This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.