Mesquite, Nevada
AZ-NV-UT Tri-State Monument
The junction point of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, resurveyed and remonumented in 2016
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Mesquite, Nevada
The junction point of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, resurveyed and remonumented in 2016
London, England
Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.
Berkeley, California
A turqoise shack off the side of the road housing "100,000 things you don't need," as their sign out front says; it's filled to the brim with an expansive collection of costume jewelry, activist pins, old postcards, expensive collector's paintings, and so, so much more.
Boston, Massachusetts
Museum dedicated to awful artwork.
Darwin, Minnesota
17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.
Kimba, Australia
A pink giant of fibreglass and metal watching the Eyre Highway from a rural roadside
Berlin, Germany
Berlin’s "Gallic Village" of the Far-Left: The COOP Anti-War Café
Skelmersdale, England
This cross between a retro arcade and a living museum provides visitors with the opportunity to operate antique coin-operated automatons, games, and other machines
Provincetown, Massachusetts
A Provincetown shop that sells exactly one thing — a pink cupcake — and whose owner fought the town for the right to keep selling it.
Belgrade, Serbia
A small memorial to a deadly night in Serbia that shook the world before it was swept under the rug.
Boa Vista, Cabo Verde
Once a bustling fishing village and trading post, today these Cape Verde ruins provide a home only for seabirds and turtles.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Aranjuez, Spain
An eighteenth-century fantasy where monkeys, dragons, and Chinese courtiers emerge from walls made entirely of porcelain.
Emporia, Kansas
An eclectic collection of mathematical items that include puzzles, art, calculating devices, and historical reproductions.
Manchester, England
It’s a street without a name, but there is a sign.
Liverpool, England
What do we know about the real woman behind one of the Beatles' most famous songs?
London, England
The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America’s smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.
Lin, Albania
6th century Byzantine mosaics preserved on a hill overlooking Lake Ohrid.
Khwaeng Talat Noi, Thailand
An abandoned Fiat 500 of unknown provenance serves as an unlikely icon of Bangkok’s older Chinatown
Nairobi, Kenya
A pristine wildlife habitat against the backdrop of skyscrapers, nicknamed "The World’s Wildlife Capital"
Porto, Portugal
The heart of King Pedro is kept preserved in formaldehyde in an urn in the main chapel of this church
Abdali, Kuwait
This road earned its macabre nickname after hundreds of Iraqi troops died along it in 1991.