Matera, Italy
Sassi di Matera
People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.
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Matera, Italy
People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.
San Simeon, California
This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Centralia, Pennsylvania
A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.
Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.
Toronto, Ontario
A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.
Holbrook, Arizona
See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.
Humboldt County, California
One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Where beautiful signs live on forever.
Barcelona, Spain
Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.
Paris, France
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.
Mont Saint-Michel, France
This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.
Toronto, Ontario
An abandoned 1970s theme park that has been turned into a space for waterfront walking.
Athens, Greece
Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.
Thompson-Nicola, British Columbia
Every four years, millions of salmon fill a river so densely that its waters appear deep crimson.
Peachland, British Columbia
The large fjord lake is thought to be the home of "Ogopogo," a giant sea serpent.
Alberta
A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.
Edmonton, Alberta
This massive mall has hundreds of shops, an amusement park, and a history of deadly amusement attractions.
Field, British Columbia
Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!
Banff, Alberta
Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.
Bellevue, Alberta
A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.
Okotoks, Alberta
This massive and unusual rock formation near Okotoks is the world's largest known glacial erratic.