West Wendover, Nevada
Window Rock
A large wave-cut arch in limestone, carved by Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, is perched atop a ridge.
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West Wendover, Nevada
A large wave-cut arch in limestone, carved by Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, is perched atop a ridge.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Mainz, Germany
An ancient Roman temple hidden in the basement of Römerpassage, a modern shopping mall.
Stone Mountain, Georgia
A semi-retired nurse’s record-setting collection of 3,000 tiny chairs.
Cassadaga, New York
Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.
Honolulu, Hawaii
Hawaii’s largest cemetery rests inside an extinct volcano crater.
St. Augustine, Florida
A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.
Honolulu, Hawaii
This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.
Iisalmi, Finland
The smallest restaurant in the world.
Hana, Hawaii
A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.
Seattle, Washington
The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Olney, Illinois
The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.
South Bristol, Maine
For nearly 200 years the same family has harvested ice from a small pond in eastern Maine.
Spencer, West Virginia
A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.
Big Bear Lake, California
A 57-foot stained-glass dome from a Parisian tango house now crowns a wine bar in the San Bernardino Mountains.
Vancouver, British Columbia
This little Vancouver shack is a temple to all things Hendrix.
Stafford, Virginia
The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.
Noasca, Italy
This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.
Gloucestershire, England
Home to the ancient Roman temple of a lesser-known Celtic god that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien and H. P. Lovecraft.
Sherborne St John, England
Alongside its 16th- and 17th-century architecture and interiors, this mansion houses an Ancient Roman ring that some believe may have inspired J.R.R. Tolkien.
Portland, Oregon
World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.
Washington, D.C.
Stone markers on the campus of Gallaudet University commemorate a peculiar school tradition.