Lyon, France
Traboules Secret Passages
Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Lyon, France
Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.
Portland, Oregon
The magic's in the hole!
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.
Kayaköy, Turkey
A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.
Glasgow, Scotland
A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.
San Francisco, California
Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.
Zipaquira, Colombia
Cathedral carved out of salt, located a mile below the Earth's surface.
Ogden, Utah
Jurassic Park—A Still Life.
Portland, Oregon
Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.
Leadville, Colorado
Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.
Moires, Greece
Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.
Duiwelskloof, South Africa
A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.
Bylakuppe, India
The world's largest Tibetan refugee settlement.
Boston, Massachusetts
Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.
Abhaneri, India
Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.
Casa Grande, Arizona
An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.
Põhja-Tallinna, Estonia
A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.
Northwest Piscataquis, Maine
Steam engines and conveyor belts are remnants of a genius system left in the middle of the Maine woods.
Redford, Texas
An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.
Humacao, Puerto Rico
This small primate research island is teeming with playing, fighting wild monkeys.
Italy
The forbidden island of the Tuscan Archipelago may still contain buried treasure.
Volgograd, Russia
The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.
Ayano-Maysky District, Russia
Five mile wide circular ring of rock in the Russian Far East is a curious geological oddity.