London, England
The Catford Cat
For more than half a century, an enormous feline has watched over this London neighborhood.
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London, England
For more than half a century, an enormous feline has watched over this London neighborhood.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.
Hope, British Columbia
A hiking area billed as a possible home to Bigfoot.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.
Isle of Staffa, Scotland
This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.
London, England
This site was once home to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.
Colnbrook, England
One of England’s oldest and most haunted inns may have inspired the legend of Sweeney Todd.
Hamelin Pool, Australia
Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.
Labruge, Portugal
Iron Age runes and ruins hide in plain sight along this Portuguese beach.
Matavun, Slovenia
This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."
Garenin, Scotland
Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.
London, England
The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.
Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal
Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.
Elberton, Georgia
A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.
Improvement District No. 12, Alberta
Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.
Alberta
The frozen bubbles that form on the icy surface of this Canadian lake contain enough methane to create a small explosion.
Wayne, Alberta
This ghost-town bar has bullet holes and plenty of stories lurking within its walls.
Port Renfrew, British Columbia
Saved by a logger, this Douglas fir is one of the last great old-growth trees in Canada.
Port Renfrew, British Columbia
Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.
Harbor Springs, Michigan
A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.
Banff, Alberta
The natural hot spring that was integral to the creation of Canada's first national park.
Deepcar, England
A stone wall commemorates the legend of a ferocious dragon who literally got his butt kicked by a knight.
Obertraun, Austria
A breathtaking viewing platform over the Alps.
Kinver, England
The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.