Oka, Guam
Oka Point
The forgotten site of Guam’s first civilian hospital, where crumbling concrete foundations overlook the sea.
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Oka, Guam
The forgotten site of Guam’s first civilian hospital, where crumbling concrete foundations overlook the sea.
Dijon, France
A forgotten stone skeleton of medieval Dijon slumbers beneath the feet of unsuspecting museum visitors.
Xian Shi, China
A life-sized imperial army, buried in battle formation, has stood underground for over 2,000 years—built not for war, but for eternity.
Valencia, Spain
Across Valencia lie the remains of three ancient fortifications built centuries apart: a Roman enclosure, an Islamic expansion, and a medieval Christian wall.
Kew, Australia
A hauntingly beautiful grave commemorates love evermore.
Berlin, Germany
An Anatolian immigrant created his own little paradise in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, made possible by the tensions of the Cold War.
Chinchiná, Colombia
Celebrating Colombian coffee growers with a big gulp of a sculpture.
California
An improbable creek near Death Valley, not far from the oldest surviving Euro-American structure in the Mojave Desert.
Liverpool, England
A neoclassical crypt hides under Liverpool’s modernist cathedral.
Bochum, Germany
The world’s largest museum dedicated to mining, complete with an underground show cave.
Altario, Alberta
The largest Neo-Gothic church in rural Alberta.
Čučuci, Montenegro
Tucked into the hills above Rafailovići, this small hidden waterfall offers a rare pocket of calm just minutes from Montenegro’s crowded Adriatic beaches.
Memphis, Tennessee
The only museum in North America dedicated to Memphis hoodoo history.
Glastonbury, England
A lending library of all possible categories of esoteric literature.
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
The Musée Albert-Kahn is a departmental museum in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, including four hectares of gardens, joining landscape scenes of various national traditions.
Ichigualasto, Argentina
Massive rock sculptures formed during the time of the dinosaurs still stand undisturbed.
Almirante Brown Department, Argentina
A vast landscape of craters created by meteorites.
Chile
A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.
Laguna Diamante, Argentina
A toxic lake near a volcanic caldera that is home to flamingos and other life.
Concepción, Chile
The ruins of a grand theater destroyed during the most powerful seismic catastrophe ever recorded.
Lota, Chile
The hellish conditions of this abandoned mine that snakes beneath the Pacific Ocean gave it its diabolic name.
Refugio Villarrica, Chile
One of Chile's most active volcanoes is riddled with beautiful caves.
Morgan City, Louisiana
The only place in the world where the general public can walk aboard an authentic offshore drilling rig.
As-Sabikah, Tunisia
A gem in the middle of the desert that looks like it came straight from a fairytale.