Almaty, Kazakhstan
The Last Wild Apple Forests
Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.
Sæby, Denmark
This historic orchard contains Northern Europe's largest collection of paradise apple trees.
Nanwei, Micronesia
The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.
Qesm Sharm Ash Sheikh, Egypt
An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.
Preston, England
Everyone's favorite clay duo immortalized in bronze.
Orchard, Colorado
In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.
Howrah, India
A single tree's 2,800 aerial roots give the appearance of a complete forest.
Lund NO, Sweden
This collection of Dwarf beech trees were once believed to be enchanted trolls in disguise.
Mauritius
Only two of these trees remain in the natural world, found high in the cloud forest of the island of Mauritius.
Athens, Georgia
A white oak with property rights.
Ridgedale, Missouri
If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.
Machynlleth, Wales
Led Zeppelin wrote some of their most iconic songs at this little 18th-century Welsh cottage.
Terrace Bay, Ontario
This small archipelago in northern Lake Superior was formed by a massive meteorite impact 450 million years ago.
Falkland Islands
An abandoned suspension bridge on the Falkland Islands is crumbling into the water.
Maidstone, England
This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.
Òrrius, Spain
A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.
Capel Saint Andrew, England
The scene of the United Kingdom's most famous UFO incident, dubbed the "British Roswell."
Richmond, Virginia
Memorial stone for GWAR vocalist, depicted in his iconic costume.
Chedglow, England
Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.
Mudurnu, Turkey
The only residents of this abandoned housing development full of identical castles are stray cats and dogs.
Dunmore, Scotland
A once extravagant mansion, now reduced to ruin.
Bishop's Castle, England
The oldest working Brewery in Britain.
Cambridge, England
This tree was grafted from the actual tree that led Isaac Newton to ponder the theory of gravity.
Itoigawa, Japan
You can still find treasures on the pebbly beaches of one of the world's oldest jade-producing areas.