Orvieto, Italy
Pozzo di San Patrizio
Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.
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Orvieto, Italy
Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.
Morda, England
The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.
Belize
Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.
Torrevieja, Spain
Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.
Bhimashankar, India
These particularly resplendent rodents are the state animal of Maharashtra.
Seringes-et-Nesles, France
This secret cemetery where no flag is allowed to fly holds the bodies of American soldiers convicted of heinous crimes during WWII.
Hong Kong
A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.
La Paz, Bolivia
A black and white solution to the Bolivian city's traffic problems.
Laos
A boat ride through utter darkness, lit only by headlamps, reveals an emerald green pool locals believe is sacred.
United States / Canada
The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.
Nairobi, Kenya
Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.
Marmore, Italy
Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.
Ballymoney, Northern Ireland
The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.
Tokyo, Japan
The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.
Tarrenz, Austria
Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer.
Rayne, Louisiana
The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.
Mantua, Italy
A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.
Tamri, Morocco
Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Gryfino, Poland
Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.
Yoro, Honduras
Fish raining from the sky are the cause of a yearly celebration in this small Honduran town.
Jaipur, India
More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.
Saty, Kazakhstan
Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.
Chamoli, India
A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.