Silver Plume, Colorado
Griffin Monument
This cliffside memorial marks the final resting place of a lonely violinist.
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Silver Plume, Colorado
This cliffside memorial marks the final resting place of a lonely violinist.
Lamu, Kenya
Kenya’s oldest town is more than 700 years old and home to 6,000 donkeys.
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Several rooms flooded with 35mm film reel.
Prešov, Slovakia
A quirky monument to the 49th parallel in downtown Prešov, Slovakia.
San Francisco, California
This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.
Baarle-Hertog, Belgium
This residence straddles a border between Belgium and the Netherlands.
Baarle-Hertog, Belgium
A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.
Nageezi, New Mexico
A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.
Passu, Pakistan
Unrefined, uneven, and unstable—this is the real McCoy of Pakistani suspension bridges.
Rochester, New York
A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.
Gbadolite, Democratic Republic of the Congo
The "Versailles of the Jungle" built by a dictator is now a decaying shadow of its hubristic grandeur.
Seattle, Washington
Meet me at the most confusing intersection in Seattle.
Sossusvlei, Namibia
This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.
Chicago, Illinois
The world's only known button museum.
Santa Rosa, California
340 bicycles, 65 feet high.
Olenivka, Ukraine
Submerged busts of communist and socialist figures from the USSR.
Sark, Guernsey
One of the world's smallest prisons boasts just two small cells.
Los Angeles, California
America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.
Sanca, British Columbia
This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.
London, England
The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.
Spokane, Washington
This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.
Omaha, Nebraska
Haunted dolls, macabre artifacts, and more make up the collection of the “most haunted museum in the world.”
Leuven, Belgium
This unassuming stone bollard is a centuries-old marker denoting the center of the city.
Ilulissat, Greenland
A remote Arctic museum focusing on the science of icebergs and the archaeology of an ancient Inuit settlement which lies just outside its doors.