Shanghai, China
Shimao Wonderland Intercontinental Hotel
The world's first hotel built in an abandoned water-filled quarry.
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Shanghai, China
The world's first hotel built in an abandoned water-filled quarry.
Niigata, Japan
Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.
Reykjavik, Iceland
One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.
Grindavík, Iceland
Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant
Iceland
This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.
Neemrana, India
This abandoned stepwell is one of the largest, deepest, and certainly one of the creepiest in India.
Helotes, Texas
Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.
Ennetbürgen, Switzerland
The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.
Gruyères, Switzerland
The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.
Bratislava, Slovakia
This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.
Medvezhyegorsky District, Russia
Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.
Moscow, Russia
Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.
Slope Point, New Zealand
The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Sigüés, Spain
A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.
Barú, Colombia
Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.
Estonia
A decommissioned submarine base makes a great space for graffiti art.
New Zealand
The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.
Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.
Evenkiysky District, Russia
Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.
Madrid, Spain
An exact replica of a colossal Olmec head sits atop a pyramid within a Madrid traffic circle.
Seattle, Washington
Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.