Film City, Qatar
Film City
A creepy, deserted mock Arabian village can be found in the middle of the Qatari desert.
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Film City, Qatar
A creepy, deserted mock Arabian village can be found in the middle of the Qatari desert.
Zacatecas, Mexico
Mexico's largest collection of masks is found in the ruins of an abandoned convent.
Evanston, Illinois
A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.
Wellington, New Zealand
New Zealand's only running funicular railway.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.
Hilliard, Ohio
A retro walk through the history of the tube.
Nottingham, England
Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.
Bucksport, Maine
A restored historic movie theater is the perfect place for a regional film archive.
Puentedey, Spain
A charming Spanish village sits atop this natural limestone overpass.
Seattle, Washington
The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.
Dunfermline, Scotland
A hidden tunnel leads to a medieval queen's shrine buried beneath a parking lot.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.
Denver, Colorado
Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.
Denver, Colorado
The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.
Waco, Texas
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.
San Simeon, California
The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.
Seydisfjordur, Iceland
An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.
Marfa, Texas
A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."
Te Pahu, New Zealand
Hundreds of toothbrushes hang from a wire fence along a quiet New Zealand road.
York, England
Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.
Prague, Czechia
What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.
Larnaca, Cyprus
The water here is so clear you can see the mysteriously sunken ship from the surface.
Carbon County, Utah
Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.
Patan, India
This magnificent stepwell is designed as an inverted temple and adorned with 1,500 sculptures.