Los Angeles, California
Venice of America Canals
After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.
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Los Angeles, California
After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.
Arlington, Virginia
At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.
Anchorage, Alaska
Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.
New York, New York
Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.
Robertson, Australia
Concrete spud looks like the North American Sebago.
Cannon Beach, Oregon
A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.
Exeter, England
Old Tudor home moved on thick iron rails to a new spot.
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.
Darmstadt, Germany
A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.
Chandigarh, India
A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.
Antarctica
Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.
Rochor, Sri Lanka
Once thought to be the Garden of Eden it holds a holy footprint claimed to belong to Adam, Buddha and Shiva.
Summerville, South Carolina
First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.
Ica, Peru
An unexpected desert oasis in South America.
Argelaguer, Spain
Wonderland replication in progress by one persistent man.
Province of Matera, Italy
An Italian hillside ghost town.
San Miguel, Spain
A small house in Tazones, completely covered in shells.
Brazil
Unusual rock formations eroded into a landscape of stone beasts.
Sant Quirze Safaja, Spain
An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.
Cardona, Spain
This ancient Spanish castle sits high upon a hilltop.
Tianshui, China
Rock-cut caves and 7,000 Buddhist sculptures carved into the nearly sheer face of a sandstone mountain.
Turin, Italy
A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.
Min Kun, Myanmar
Gigantic unfinished stupa and the world's 2nd largest bell.
Saturnia, Italy
Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.