Amsterdam, Netherlands
Our Lord in the Attic
The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.
Zipaquira, Colombia
Cathedral carved out of salt, located a mile below the Earth's surface.
Cannon Beach, Oregon
This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.
Seaside, Oregon
Where Nor'easters go to die.
Tillamook, Oregon
No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.
Tillamook, Oregon
The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.
Long Beach, Washington
This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.
Astoria, Oregon
This solo operation offers the world's only whey wines in flavors such as chocolate-orange.
Seaside, Oregon
This small, rural pioneer cemetery is full of interesting grave markers.
Yachats, Oregon
There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.
Portland, Oregon
This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.
Portland, Oregon
World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.
Kisoro, Uganda
The home of half the world's population of critically endangered mountain gorillas.
New York, New York
A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.
Yonkers, New York
America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.
Pahrump, Nevada
Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.
Rjukan, Norway
For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.
Hot Springs, North Carolina
North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.
Spokane, Washington
Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.
Rome, Italy
Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.
Samarra, Iraq
9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.
Szatmárcseke, Hungary
Hundreds of boat-shaped headstones fill this graveyard as part of a centuries-old custom with mysterious origins.
Gildeskål, Norway
Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.
Niigata, Japan
Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.