Da Nang, Vietnam
Da Nang Cathedral
This candy-pink cathedral of Da Nang is also known as the Chicken Church.
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Da Nang, Vietnam
This candy-pink cathedral of Da Nang is also known as the Chicken Church.
Miedzianka, Poland
This formerly-prosperous Silesian mining town was completely demolished in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an attempt to cover up a secret Soviet uranium mine.
Madrid, Spain
Once a resting spot for King Fernando VII.
Kostrzyn nad Odrą, Poland
The center of this Polish border town was so thoroughly wiped out in World War II that only the foundations remain.
Fukuoka, Japan
The birthplace of the Japanese idiom "wet clothes" meaning “false accusation."
Buffalo, New York
The only boathouse Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed was also the only unbuilt structure in his famous Wasmuth Portfolio, until 2007.
Kyoto, Japan
A strip of traditional hand towel serves as an admission ticket at this modern tenugui museum.
Tallinn, Estonia
This free museum is building a collection of books that are banned, censored or burnt around the world.
Bergamo, Italy
At the entrance of this chapel is a fresco commemorating the dead from the plague outbreak of 1630.
Basel, Switzerland
The most impressive of Basel's three remaining city gates.
Medicine Hat, Alberta
A standalone wonder amid the prairie badlands of southeastern Alberta.
Baginton, England
A mysterious Castle is now home to a rare breed of goat.
Karachi, Pakistan
A shrine in Karachi is home to around 100 crocodiles that are regarded as sacred.
Oranienburg, Germany
This abandoned hospital has a long history, having housed both German and Soviet soldiers in the course of its life.
Kovach, Alberta
Three pristine alpine lakes named in memorial of an accident that resulted in three different plane crashes.
Roccastrada, Italy
Visit a secretive crypt before it crumbles to dust.
Forks, Washington
This tree has witnessed nearly 1,000 years of history.
Belgrade, Serbia
A retro Yugoslav congress, cultural, and business hall built in the 1970s, with an iconic world clock.
Rome, Italy
Inside this building is another country within Rome, a sovereign entity without a physical territory.
Utrecht, Netherlands
Underground attraction offering tours of the foundational ruins of a church nave that collapsed in 1674.
Huế, Vietnam
Perhaps the only one of its kind, the nearly-forgotten site once held mortal (and rigged) gladiatorial games between tigers and imperial war elephants.
Basel, Switzerland
A futuristic rocket marks the spot where three borders meet.
Mamerki, Poland
This lakeside bunker complex in Mamerki, Poland, housed the Supreme Military Command of Nazi Germany during World War II.
Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand
The site of a Japanese traders’ settlement that once thrived in Ayutthaya, if for less than a century.