Saint-Romain-au-Mont-d'Or, France
The Abode of Chaos
An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Saint-Romain-au-Mont-d'Or, France
An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.
Cherrapunjee, India
Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.
Ivankivs'kyi district, Ukraine
This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.
Gruyères, Switzerland
The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.
Hřensko, Czechia
Europe's largest natural bridge has a 19th century royal chateau built into its side.
Naica, Mexico
A gargantuan crystal kingdom.
Prague, Czechia
A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.
Albany, California
A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.
Richmond, California
Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."
Mill Valley, California
One man's love of natural beauty led to the creation of this hidden granite monument.
Moorhead, Minnesota
This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.
McHenry, North Dakota
A lonely house representing railroad history tells the stories of those who rode the rails.
Tower, Minnesota
Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.
Grand Marais, Minnesota
Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.
Temagami, Ontario
Stunning views over Ontario's old-growth pine forests.
Timmins, Ontario
It's 2 billion years old!
Rivière-aux-Outardes, Québec
Artistic cabins actually grow deep in the Canadian wilderness.
Division No. 9, Subd. A, Newfoundland and Labrador
This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.
Greenland
The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.
Tasiilaq, Greenland
Small Island off the coast of Greenland.
Rivière-Koksoak, Québec
A lake in the middle of the tundra of Quebec is said to be the purest freshwater lake on Earth.
Barrow, Alaska
The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.
Russia
Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.
Nome, Alaska
This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.