Ørland, Norway
Austrått Pyramid
This strange pyramid is a unique feature of the Austrått Manor.
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Ørland, Norway
This strange pyramid is a unique feature of the Austrått Manor.
Flagstaff, Arizona
This 1930s log cabin began as a taxidermy museum but is now a popular country music venue.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.
Tourlida, Greece
An islet filled with wooden houses where the open sea meets a lagoon.
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.
Rotherham, England
This small crenelated building was built by a British aristocrat who supported the American Revolution and may have named it in memory of a pivotal battle.
Mineral de Pozos, Mexico
A bed and breakfast, botanical garden, art gallery, academy, and workshop all in one.
Minsk, Belarus
A sculpture of graceful storks sits atop this fountain in Independence Square.
Madrid, Spain
These abandoned country fairgrounds are filled with replicas of Spanish monuments.
Canoa, Ecuador
These unusual stone structures are actually fish traps crafted by an ancient civilization.
Marietta, Georgia
The ruins of a paper mill destroyed during the Civil War still tower over a tributary of the Chattahoochee River.
Larne, Northern Ireland
A Victorian marvel of engineering is now a 21st-century tourist attraction.
London, England
The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.
Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.
Oslo, Norway
Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This grave marks one of few bodies retrieved from the disastrous Franklin Arctic expedition.
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."
Eichenau, Germany
This small town in Germany was once a center of peppermint production, and has the museum to prove it.
Bardstown, Kentucky
The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.
Böblingen, Germany
Sausages, schnitzel, and weiners.
Schrobenhausen, Germany
Behold, a collection dedicated to Germany's favorite vegetable.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Learn the history of Dominican rum production.
Langhirano, Italy
Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.
Santos, Brazil
This majestic building, where Brazil's coffee brokers once bought and sold beans, now houses a coffee museum.