Paris, France
Catacombes de Paris
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
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Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Paris, France
A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.
Paris, France
The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.
Paris, France
Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.
Willemstad, Curaçao
Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.
Santa Cruz, Aruba
A safe place for the wild donkeys of a hot vacation destination.
New Jersey, Trinidad and Tobago
This peculiar lake of pitch is so thick and viscous that one can walk on its surface.
Caracas, Venezuela
Dr. Farid Mattar's Monument of Peace.
Merida, Venezuela
Shop the world's largest number of ice cream flavors, ranging from delightful to downright bizarre.
Uribante, Venezuela
A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.
Liberty, New York
This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.
Staten Island, New York
A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
A macabre sculpture museum in the capital of Haiti fuses human bones with broken metal to create challenging contemporary art.
Grenada
Rare signs of the former Soviet Union in the Caribbean, though not where you'd expect them.
Villavieja, Colombia
Unparalleled stargazing, one of Colombia's best observatories, and a swimming pool can all be found in the middle of this ancient tropical forest.
Summerville, Georgia
Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.
San Simeon, California
The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.
San Antonio del Tequendama, Colombia
This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.
Barú, Colombia
Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.
Jersey City, New Jersey
A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.
Willemstad, Curaçao
The floor of the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas is entirely covered in sand.
Willemstad, Curaçao
Like something out of a pulp adventure, this abandoned plane wreck is slowly being retaken by the Caribbean jungle.
Venezuela
This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.
Caracas, Venezuela
Ruins of the laboratory where a mysterious doctor invented an embalming fluid and stored his mummies.