Greenland
Camp Century (Project Iceworm)
A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Greenland
A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.
Film City, Qatar
A creepy, deserted mock Arabian village can be found in the middle of the Qatari desert.
Qesm Sharm Ash Sheikh, Egypt
An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.
Sukhumi, Georgia
Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.
Los Angeles, California
This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.
New York, New York
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
Erwin, Tennessee
Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.
Hinckley, Ohio
Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.
Iceland
A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.
Saguenay, Québec
Despite its name this unique art piece was established to commemorate a tragic flood.
Gildeskål, Norway
Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.
Billund, Denmark
An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.
Toronto, Ontario
A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.
Sillamäe, Estonia
This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.
Bang Muang Mai, Thailand
This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.
Antarctica
The largest piece of no man's land left on Earth.
Vilnius, Lithuania
This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.
Dayton, Nevada
The smallest country in the world.
Reids Flat, Australia
The smallest country in Australia is a principled little thing with a friendly emperor.
Nahariya, Israel
The most peaceful "country" in the Middle East.
Croatia
A self-proclaimed libertarian micro-state on a tiny bit of disputed territory between Serbia and Croatia.
Suffolk, England
A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.
New York, New York
The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.
Rye, Colorado
The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.