Singapore
Southernmost Point of Continental Asia
Across this single-file rope bridge is what has been claimed to be the edge of continental Asia.
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Singapore
Across this single-file rope bridge is what has been claimed to be the edge of continental Asia.
Cebu City, Philippines
This holy site either displays a centuries-old cross or a complete fake.
Flagstaff, Arizona
A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.
Atlanta, Georgia
One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.
Bangkok, Thailand
Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
An ode to the history of telephones inside a telephone building.
Main Beach, Australia
The Australian terminal of the Pacific Cable that linked the continent to North America.
West Berlin, New Jersey
Destructive children, start your engines.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.
Delta, Utah
A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.
London, England
These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.
Russia
Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.
Pāhoa, Hawaii
Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.
Kaneohe, Hawaii
A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.
Honolulu, Hawaii
A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.
Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands
The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
Inarajan, Guam
The underground hideout of a Japanese soldier for whom World War II ended in 1972.
Portland, Oregon
The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.
Cheyenne, Wyoming
The only retired U.S. nuclear missile silo that is open to the public.
Teec Nos Pos, Utah
The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.
Halchita, Utah
The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.