London, England
Clown Egg Register
An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.
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London, England
An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.
Meyrin, Switzerland
The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.
Frederick, Maryland
This four-story steel sphere in Maryland was used to test biological weapons.
New Delhi, India
A startling, centuries-old subterranean marvel hides in plain sight.
Luján de Cuyo, Argentina
A brightly colored natural bridge formed by mineral-rich hot springs high up in the Andes.
Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.
Walker County, Georgia
The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.
Bundi, India
A small town in Rajasthan has been dubbed the "City of Stepwells," and Raniji ki Baori is the queen.
Amedi, Iraq
This beautiful arched gate is all that remains of the fortress the ancient mountaintop town of Amadiya once was.
Patan, India
This magnificent stepwell is designed as an inverted temple and adorned with 1,500 sculptures.
Tambon Sa Kamphaeng Yai, Thailand
Gruesome statues of people reborn in Buddhist hell stand among the ruins of an 11th-century sanctuary.
Tokyo, Japan
An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.
Victoria, British Columbia
Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.
Winterhaven, California
Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.
Rayne, Louisiana
The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.
Mitsero, Cyprus
Rusted structures stand like ghosts of Cyprus' 6,000-year-old copper industry.
Onomichi, Japan
The 43-mile route crosses through six islands with gorgeous views of the Seto Inland Sea.
Huntsville, Alabama
A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.
Tianjin, China
China’s breathtaking futuristic library is lined floor to ceiling with fake books.
Hebron, New Hampshire
This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.
Taos, New Mexico
Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.
Muriwai, New Zealand
New Zealand's west coast is one of the best places in the world to view these large seabirds.
Pyeongchang, South Korea
The darkest building on Earth was built for the snow-white scenery of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Copper Harbor, Michigan
The site where Michigan launched its first rocket into space lies abandoned in the dense woods along Lake Superior.