Seattle, Washington
Buried Indigenous Seed Capsules
Part of Seattle’s Ravenna Creek Drop project, these capsules preserve seeds of plants that predated the city.
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Seattle, Washington
Part of Seattle’s Ravenna Creek Drop project, these capsules preserve seeds of plants that predated the city.
Choum, Mauritania
Both an engineering feat and a monument to bad colonial politics.
Norwich, Connecticut
Abandoned 37.5' diameter rusted metal sphere sitting in the woods.
Košice, Slovakia
Pay your respects to a country that only existed for a few weeks.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
In Stone Town, Zanzibar, the city’s culture and history is told through its doors.
Hyderabad, India
The fin-tastically detailed headquarters of the National Fisheries Development Board.
Put-In-Bay, Ohio
What was one of the largest hotels in the country burned to the ground in a tragic fire.
Brussels, Belgium
This conceptual artwork might be the most disappointing attraction in Brussels.
Schleiden, Germany
An eerie ghost village hidden in the forests of the Eifel, frozen in a strange postwar limbo.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
These 11,000-year-old mounds may be the oldest known human-made structures in the Americas.
Enilchek, Kyrgyzstan
This largely abandoned village was home to a bustling mining community in the Soviet era.
Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico
This cultural center showcases what may be the oldest ongoing community in all of North America.
Nikolai, Sweden
A rubber duck made out of a decidedly different kind of rubber.
Douart Amejjoute, Morocco
This shrine is abandoned, virtually unknown, and dedicated to a Sufi mystic shrouded in mystery.
Antarctica
These passages carved from the Antarctic ice hold strange shrines to the harsh southernmost climes.
Gibsland, Louisiana
Historical marker at the spot where Bonnie and Clyde were killed.
Saint Andrews, Scotland
Scotland's claim to the prime meridian was laid 200 years prior to the one in Greenwich.
Athens, Greece
This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.
Crater Lake, Oregon
A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.
Tokyo, Japan
Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.
Willemstad, Curaçao
The mouldering manses of wealthy colonials still pock the streets of a Curaçao neighborhood.
Tangier, Morocco
This stucco building in North Africa was the first American-owned property on foreign soil.
Berlin, Germany
Check the time in 145 countries at once with this East German relic.
Città del Vaticano, Vatican City
The secret centuries-old German cemetery in the heart of the Vatican.