Boston, Massachusetts
Mapparium Globe
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
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Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Ona, Florida
Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.
Samara, Russia
Stalin's secret bunker.
Magdalena, New Mexico
Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.
Seattle, Washington
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
Colonia Del Sacramento, Uruguay
Abandoned bull fighting ring, slowly falling apart in Uruguay.
Bochnia, Poland
Poland's oldest salt mine has nearly everything one needs to live underground forever.
Clermont, Florida
An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.
Zermatt, Switzerland
Spiral alpine structure provides an alternative experience of viewing the Matterhorn.
Leadville, Colorado
Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.
Murmansk, Russia
The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.
Besançon, France
One of the world's most complex timepieces.
Park Ridge, Illinois
A science teacher's dream.
Falkirk, Scotland
Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.
Yallabatharra, Australia
A micronation of epic proportions.
Seaside, Oregon
Where Nor'easters go to die.
Višňové, Slovakia
The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Shoreham, Australia
Australia's largest traditional hedge maze features a Great Gnome Hunt.
Zipaquira, Colombia
Cathedral carved out of salt, located a mile below the Earth's surface.
Lancaster, California
Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.
El Paso, Texas
Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.
Phonsavan, Laos
Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.
Panhandle, Texas
The only nuclear weapon assembly and disassembly plant in the U.S.