Gasadalur Village, Faroe Islands
Gásadalur Village
This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .
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Gasadalur Village, Faroe Islands
This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .
Faroe Islands
In Faroese legend, this sinister horse-shaped beast lures unsuspecting passersby only to drown them in the lake.
Faroe Islands
The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.
Brooklyn, New York
This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.
Richmond, Virginia
This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
San Bernardino, California
These structures were inspired by both Native American shelters as well as, strangely, an ice cream shop.
Los Alamos, California
This unique bed and breakfast was first constructed during the 1800s by a Russian immigrant family.
New York, New York
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
Mellieħa, Malta
An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.
Seattle, Washington
This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.
Atlanta, Georgia
This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.
San Francisco, California
A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.
San Francisco, California
A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.
San Francisco, California
This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.
San Francisco, California
The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.
San Francisco, California
There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.
Ojai, California
The disdain for this dysfunctional dam is reflected in a giant pair of scissors painted on the concrete face.
North Pole, Alaska
An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.
Whittier, Alaska
This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.
Cantwell, Alaska
Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.
Juneau, Alaska
Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.
Henderson, Nevada
This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.
Huangshan, China
This short pedestrian span is also known as the "Fairy Walking Bridge" because it looks almost magical.