Buenos Aires, Argentina
El Ateneo Grand Splendid
This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Jodhpur, India
Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.
San Francisco, California
Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.
London, England
The world's longest continuously running show has played at this small West End theater since 1974.
Washington, D.C.
The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.
Bomarzo, Italy
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
Pune, India
These fascinating 19th-century tombs in the center of Pune belong to Europeans who lived in the city in that era.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Bird Island, North Carolina
A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.
New York, New York
A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.
New York, New York
More gold than anywhere else, ever.
New York, New York
One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).
New York, New York
Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.
Carmel Hamlet, New York
The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.
Brooklyn, New York
Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.
Naples, Italy
Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.
Denver, Colorado
A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.
Bristol, England
England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.
Key Biscayne, Florida
An underwater city for the dead.
Howrah, India
A single tree's 2,800 aerial roots give the appearance of a complete forest.
Edgartown, Massachusetts
The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.
Ogdensburg, New Jersey
Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.