Joshua Tree, California
Beauty Bubble Salon and Museum
The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."
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Joshua Tree, California
The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."
Cochin, Saskatchewan
The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.
Kittilä, Finland
A lumberjack in Finnish Lapland did not want to cut down his Arctic pines, so he offered them up to be adopted by nature-lovers.
East Tigray, Ethiopia
Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.
Kobe, Japan
A collection of the specialized tools used to construct Japan’s beautiful architecture.
Ripon, England
Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.
Hrabušice, Slovakia
Climb around the high waterfalls on series of iron ladders and bridges within the wildest gorge in the Slovak Paradise.
Lido, Italy
Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.
Lompoc, California
With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.
Seldom, Newfoundland and Labrador
This quirky museum will make you question everything, including the shape of the planet.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.
Narvik, Norway
The rusted hull of a WWII German destroyer pokes above the surface in a Norwegian fjord.
Luxor, Egypt
These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.
Bolinas, California
This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.
Veszprém, Hungary
The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
New Carlisle, Indiana
One of the world’s largest living advertisements is made out of pine trees.
Ely, England
A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.
Valenciennes, France
This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.
Liepāja, Latvia
The mile-long pier stretches from a ruined fortress out into the Baltic.
Boston, Massachusetts
One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.
Chichen Itza, Mexico
Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.
Kesennuma, Japan
Stone slabs along the coast warn of Japan's tsunami-ravaged past, often marking the highest point of a wave's reach.
Florián, Colombia
A three-tiered waterfall plummets from a mountain cave with amazing views over the countryside.
Kuta, Indonesia
The wing of this deserted Boeing 737 almost touches the Dunkin' Donuts next door.