Suffolk, England
Principality of Sealand
A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Suffolk, England
A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.
Turin, Italy
The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.
Saint-Bonnet-le-Château, France
Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Brooklyn, New York
In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).
Athens, Greece
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
England
Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.
Lopar, Croatia
The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.
Safita, Syria
Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.
Mount Dandenong, Australia
A collection of outdoor mystical statues paying homage to indigenous Australians and ecological stewardship.
Petra District, Jordan
An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.
Solovetskiy, Russia
Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.
Plainfield, Wisconsin
Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.
Dublin, Ireland
An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.
Cologne, Germany
A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.
Dowth, Ireland
The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.
Saint Lunaire-Griquet, Newfoundland and Labrador
An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.
Berkeley, California
An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.
Surfers Paradise, Australia
The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.
Harrogate, England
Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.
Moscow, Russia
Former headquarters of the KGB.
Madrid, Spain
An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.