Shooshtar, Iran
Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System
This beautiful system of tunnels built into natural rock serves as a centuries old plumbing system.
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Shooshtar, Iran
This beautiful system of tunnels built into natural rock serves as a centuries old plumbing system.
Shumen, Bulgaria
This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.
Gablenz, Germany
This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.
Taichung City, Taiwan
Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.
Halbe, Germany
It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.
Crossville, Tennessee
This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
This Canadian island is a veritable garden of decay with countless abandoned structures dotting the landscape.
Ban Long, Laos
This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.
Huizhou, China
A Chinese mining company has created the world's first cloned village in this perfect recreation of an Austrian town.
Masuleh, Iran
In this tiny Iranian town playing on the roof isn't just encouraged, it's the only place to go.
Paris, France
Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.
Ennetbürgen, Switzerland
The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.
Denizli Merkez, Turkey
A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.
Farmington, New Mexico
Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.
Panguipulli, Chile
This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.
Langkawi, Malaysia
This dangerous-looking suspension bridge may have been too unstable to remain open.
Queens, New York
The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.
Kalabaka, Greece
Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.
Puerto Princesa, Philippines
This tiny island protects a number of rare bird species by only allowing visitors to set foot on the beach.
Erfurt, Germany
This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.
Clifton, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Starting with nothing more than discarded conch shells, one man has built an island/bar that would make Jimmy Buffet jealous.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.
Lincolnshire, Illinois
This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.