Barranquilla, Colombia
Train Track To Nowhere
A narrow ghost town built onto a peninsula behind a Colombian Slum.
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Barranquilla, Colombia
A narrow ghost town built onto a peninsula behind a Colombian Slum.
Prague, Czechia
A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.
La Malbaie, Québec
This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.
Tonga
A failed utopia, shut down by a more legitimate nation.
Hawthorne, California
The Southern California pop sounds of surf and sand were born right here.
Fairbourne, Wales
A hidden tunnel leads to an abandoned slate quarry that's now a secret swimming spot guarded by cliffs.
Avarız Köyü, Turkey
Brawny guys rolling around in oil is the oldest regular sporting event besides the Olympics.
Carrabelle, Florida
The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.
Tamura, Japan
"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.
Kensington, Maryland
One of the largest collections of Catalan literature and cultural materials outside of Spain, created by a community of 1960s expats.
Manětín, Czechia
Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.
Mumbai, India
Tucked in Mumbai’s wealthiest neighborhood is one of the city’s oldest and most sacred sites: a temple complex believed to house the waters of the Ganges.
Vallejo, California
The perfect spot for a picnic, right next to a giant ballistic missile.
Conakry, Guinea
The school produces some of Africa's most talented acrobats and contortionists.
Invergordon, Scotland
This abandoned oil depot produces world's longest echo in a manmade structure.
Woodstock, Vermont
An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.
Hanko, Finland
The etchings on this narrow channel between two islands bear witness to maritime travelers who have passed through since the Middle Ages.
Carp Lake, Michigan
During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.
Komatsushima-shi, Japan
A statue of a mischievous raccoon towers over this city park.
Turukhansky District, Russia
Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.
Vågsøy, Norway
Thousands of years of crashing waves gave this mushroom-shaped rock its svelte figure.
San Miguel Ameyalco, Mexico
A fairy garden in an old hotel hidden in La Marquesa forest.
Cvikov, Czechia
The largest manmade caves in Europe now function as a motorbike club's headquarters.
Ortona, Italy
The relics of one of Jesus' 12 apostles are enshrined in this Italian Basilica.