Dover Plains, New York
Dover Plains Stone Church
This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
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Dover Plains, New York
This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
Monterey, California
Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.
Green Valley, Arizona
After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.
Augsburg, Germany
In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.
Seattle, Washington
The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.
Beidweiler, Luxembourg
This tri-part waterfall is a little bit of fairytale beauty in the heart of Luxembourg's Little Switzerland.
Washington, D.C.
The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.
Weatherly, Pennsylvania
This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.
Jaca, Spain
This religious complex carved into a cliff is steeped in legends of miraculous stags and the Holy Grail.
Guyana
The world's widest single drop waterfall, and the two men who legend says went over its edge in a boat.
Iceland
This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.
Cooperstown, North Dakota
These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.
Afton, Wyoming
A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."
Cripple Creek, Colorado
This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.
Sana'a, Yemen
Yemen's "Stone Palace" looks like it was carved right out of the tall stone column on which it is built.
Civita, Italy
This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.
Helsinki, Finland
An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.
Jerome, Arizona
On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.
Enbekshikazakh District, Kazakhstan
The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.
Zihuatanejo, Mexico
A notoriously corrupt Chief of Police's deteriorating Greek-themed playhouse.
Berlin, Germany
This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.
Winslow, Arizona
One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.
Kawasaki, Japan
This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.
Hendersonville, North Carolina
These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.