Umm Salal Muhammed, Qatar
Barzan Towers
These beautiful historic watchtowers were used for both scanning the desert for enemy invaders and observing the celestial world.
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Umm Salal Muhammed, Qatar
These beautiful historic watchtowers were used for both scanning the desert for enemy invaders and observing the celestial world.
Belize
A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.
Worcester, England
Quaint, disturbing, and macabre objects are all on display at this intriguing collection of medical instruments from bygone eras.
Nunavut
The remote graves mark the mysterious deaths of four 19th century explorers.
Fallbrook, California
Famous and forgotten figures lie beneath the faded headstones and decaying planks of wood.
Blatce, Czechia
Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.
Valencia, Philippines
A vast personal collection of World War II artifacts unearthed over many years by a father-son duo.
Al-Shikhan, Iraq
The surviving pieces of an ancient aqueduct that may have fed into the lost Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
London, England
The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.
Dorset, Vermont
This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.
Urgun, Mongolia
Mongolian Buddhists believe this monastery in the Gobi desert to be the center of the world's spiritual energy.
Merta, India
This small and unknown museum recounts the life of Mirabai, a remarkable mystic saint of the 16th century.
Guatemala
A ruined Maya city that suffered a years-long case of mistaken identity.
London, England
The home studio one of Britain's first independent record producers is also the site of a murder-suicide.
Bacoli, Italy
The Bourbon royal family had this unique octagonal hunting "cottage" built on a tiny islet in Lake Fusaro.
Berrioplano, Spain
This huge abandoned fortress hidden inside a mountain holds a world of subterranean secrets.
Göttingen, Germany
These beautiful objects represent beautiful ideas.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.
Saguache, Colorado
Hidden high on a remote mountain peak is a humbling and mysterious Vietnam War memorial.
Most, Czechia
This Gothic church was wheeled in its entirety to a new location a half a mile away.
North Macedonia
An abandoned resort in North Macedonia is a relic from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.
Dessau-Roßlau, Germany
The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.
Island Park, Idaho
A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.
Otsuchi, Japan
A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.