South Africa
Wonderwerk Cave
A million years ago, our ancient ancestors were cooking with fire in this cave.
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South Africa
A million years ago, our ancient ancestors were cooking with fire in this cave.
Circleville, West Virginia
This harrowing climb along West Virginia's jagged spires is one of the only Via Ferrata on America's east coast.
Fort William, Scotland
In 1990, this 37-foot red steel bottle sailed from New York to England.
Ellenville, New York
The remnants of a luxurious resort that saw its peak in the 1970s and 1980s has been abandoned since 2009, leaving behind the wreckage of both the hotel and a beautiful ice skating rink.
Pyongyang, North Korea
An English brewery transported to North Korea.
Ashland, Kansas
Stories of sightless fish and ghostly cowboys are only a fraction of the legends surrounding this Kansas sinkhole.
Mill Valley, California
Astronomers plan to launch a space telescope into orbit, to find out what exactly stands in the way of an asteroid hitting Earth.
Santiago, Chile
This observatory high on a hilltop in the center of Santiago got its start in 1852.
Moldova
This sign marks the entrance to a tiny proto-state within the small country of Moldova.
Dolomites, Italy
A climbing route in the mountains of Italy’s Dolomites, built for soldiers during World War I.
Baltimore, Maryland
One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.
Barskoon, Kyrgyzstan
A boulder carved into the shape of the cosmonaut's head.
Keystone, South Dakota
Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.
Provincia de Bongará, Peru
One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.
Leninskiy rayon, Russia
The laboratory where the Soviet secret police invented exotic poisons used to kill dissidents in hideous and (mostly) untraceable ways.
Baltimore, Maryland
A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.
Solovetskiy, Russia
No one knows why ancient labyrinths were built on this tiny northern island.
Harbor Springs, Michigan
A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.
Nazca, Peru
Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.
Chamoli, India
A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.
Cook Islands
A desert island with both a buried treasure and a famous castaway.
Invergordon, Scotland
Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.
Wicklow, Ireland
On the Irish coast, 18 members of the Howard family are eternally resting in an Egyptian pyramid.
Greenland
A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.