Sperlonga, Italy
Villa of Tiberius
The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.
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Sperlonga, Italy
The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.
Haverstraw, New York
This house was the subject of an Edward Hopper painting, which in turn helped inspire the design of the Bates house in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho.'
Germantown, Maryland
The ruins of an old mill lie in a small ravine along a hiking trail near Little Seneca Creek.
Oxford, England
The remnants of this unusual bridge await an uncertain fate.
Medora, North Dakota
Home of a French nobleman's short-lived attempt at raising cattle in the Badlands of North Dakota.
Glendive, Montana
The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.
Glendive, Montana
This museum is dedicated to telling the story of dinosaurs from a creationist perspective.
Medora, North Dakota
The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.
Noojee, Australia
This remnant of an old railroad is the tallest surviving wooden trestle bridge in Victoria.
Arouca, Portugal
One of the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridges.
Singapore
The highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore looks like a series of undulating waves rising between two public parks.
Midland, Michigan
This unusual three-way wooden foot bridge spans two rivers at once.
Crail, Scotland
The remains of a 19th-century carving of what was to be a signal light on the Firth of Forth Estuary.
Truckee, California
This settlement on the original Transcontinental Railroad began by harvesting timber, but transitioned to a forgotten 19th-century industry: harvesting ice.
McMinnville, Oregon
A 36-ton remnant of the last Ice Age now resides amid picturesque vineyards.
Salem, Oregon
An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.
McMinnville, Oregon
The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.
McMinnville, Oregon
Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.
Salem, Oregon
This incongruous small ferry across the Willamette River north of Salem, Oregon has been operating continuously since the 1850s.
Irkutsk, Russia
Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.
Kamishihoro, Japan
An isolated "phantom bridge" doomed to crumble into ruin.
Washington, D.C.
There just so happens to be a court even higher than the U.S Supreme Court: a basketball court in the building itself.
Antarctica
At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.
Valga, Estonia
For the last century, this international border within a small town has appeared and disappeared various times.