Places Clur Wants to Go

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

Crumbling pyramids and temple ruins stand within the shadow of this sacred butte.

Remains of an abandoned coral city.

Tracks of ceratosaurus and Coelophysis rhodesiensis tracks can be found fossilized in the sandstone near Mt. Etjo.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

The largest canoe collection in the world—and the most Canadian museum ever.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

This strange statue features a bust of the famous composer plopped atop a woman's body.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

The carved medieval stones stand near the ruined abbey's parking lot.

These ancient symbols freckling a Scottish cliff remained hidden for centuries.

A bizarre stone beast lurks on the beach of a popular tourist island.

A historic cave in Scotland once served as a hiding place for a famous Covenanter.

A trio of giant megalithic stones in the middle of a golf course.

This tin chapel was built by POW's during World War II and is painted to look like something much more grand.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

A baffling beast so absurd a town councilman called it "intellectual vomit in technicolor."