Traverse City, Michigan
Mission Point Lighthouse
This picturesque beacon was built to keep boats safe shortly after the Civil War.
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Traverse City, Michigan
This picturesque beacon was built to keep boats safe shortly after the Civil War.
Ashibetsu, Japan
Hokkaido's largest music box museum, featuring music boxes that are unique in Japan and the world.
St. Ignace, Michigan
Miners in Michigan developed a taste for Cornish beef pasties, which this roadside stand has been selling since 1947.
Antarctica
A garden in the middle of the most inhospitable continent.
Saint-Malo, France
Folklore and history carved into Brittany's coast.
Boston, Massachusetts
Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.
Prague, Czechia
Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.
Celebration, Florida
Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.
Eaglehawk Neck, Australia
This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.
Scottsboro, Alabama
One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.
Seattle, Washington
Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.
Gibraltar
Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.
Boawae, Indonesia
A real-life "hobbit" cave in Flores, Indonesia.
Los Angeles, California
Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.
Denver, Colorado
A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.
Brno, Czechia
Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.
Ballachulish, Scotland
The location of the Bridge of Death and the Gorge of Eternal Peril in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
A decaying, yet still functioning, work of communist architecture.
Boston, Massachusetts
Commemorating the 1948 creation of the Jimmy Fund, a Boston-based cancer charity.
Taizé, France
A Christian retreat founded to welcome refugees fleeing from the Nazis during World War II.
Ishøj, Denmark
Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.
Copenhagen, Denmark
The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.
Glenfinnan, Scotland
A close look reveals that the Scottish monument is just slightly off-kilter.
Carnoët, France
A remote hilltop covered in giant monoliths haunts the Brittany countryside.