Porangahau, New Zealand
The Longest Place Name In The World
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
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Porangahau, New Zealand
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
Kingussie, Scotland
These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.
Glenelg, Scotland
The sign announces the Scottish village's cosmic connections, as it's twinned with Glenelg, Mars.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Wales
This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.
Leiden, Netherlands
The house of physicists Paul Ehrenfest was also a temporary dwelling and study for his good friend Albert Einstein.
West Nyack, New York
A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.
Jönköping N, Sweden
A forest of immensely tall and unusually straight oak trees planted nearly 200 years ago to build naval ships that never came to be.
Australia
One of the only places where Earth’s mantle lies above water.
Anmore, British Columbia
The century-old plant starred as the villainous clown's lair in the miniseries based on Stephen King's "It."
Vilminore di Scalve, Italy
The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.
York, England
The little-known second castle that William the Conqueror built in York.
Manchester, England
This Manchester laundromat is hiding something.
Cape Town, South Africa
Despite many attempts to finish this overpass, it has been abandoned since the 1970s.
Brazil
An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.
Mt. Jewett, Pennsylvania
Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.
Irlavas pagasts, Latvia
A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.
Euclid, Ohio
This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.
Dunbar, Scotland
At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.
Gilboa, New York
This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.
Independence, Missouri
A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.
Twentynine Palms, California
The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.
Dearborn, Michigan
One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.
Danbury, Connecticut
This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.
Danbury, Connecticut
A castle inspired by medieval architecture is hidden in the woods of Connecticut.