La Salle, Illinois
Hegeler-Carus Mansion
A sprawling historic mansion with connections to a notable industrial and publishing dynasty.
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La Salle, Illinois
A sprawling historic mansion with connections to a notable industrial and publishing dynasty.
Santos, Brazil
Something about this Brazilian city is slightly askew... literally.
Yeal, Australia
The world's "leaniest" tower encourages you to test the gravity of its situation.
Zaragoza, Spain
A statue of a boy looks up at where the famous rival to the Leaning Tower of Pisa once stood.
Puerto Morelos, Mexico
Still standing despite its considerable slant, this tilted lighthouse has become a local symbol of resilience.
Tbilisi, Georgia
The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.
Glenfinnan, Scotland
A close look reveals that the Scottish monument is just slightly off-kilter.
Karviná, Czechia
Once overlooking the town, this church now resides on a permanent tilt.
Hinte, Germany
The Suurhusen church tower in Germany leans over farther than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Canterbury, England
This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.
Niles, Illinois
Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.
Moscow, Russia
Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.
Lübeck, Germany
A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.
Caerphilly, Wales
This castle tower in Wales leans at a steeper angle than the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Saaremaa, Estonia
Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.
Buena Vista, California
The first lookout in Yosemite.
Kenova, West Virginia
Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.
Corolla, North Carolina
One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.
Mollendo, Peru
An abandoned early 20th-century mansion towers over a cliff in a southern Peruvian beach town.
Chomutov, Czechia
This massive, now-retired coal-mine excavator is said to resemble a mythical dragon.
Ekebol, Sweden
Location of a royal cave rave in the 1800s, now largely forgotten.
London, England
Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.
Pluckley, England
A woodland close to England's "most haunted village" has been the site of many unexplained events and deaths.
Rybachiy, Russia
The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.