Tal, Austria
Green Lake
Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.
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Tal, Austria
Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.
Skinnskatteberg, Sweden
Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.
Kitakyushu, Japan
An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.
Cienfuegos, Cuba
Four antique Baldwin trains are kept on display in the Mal Tiempo train depot.
Corinth, Vermont
The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."
Europoort Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Rozenberg wind wall in South Holland makes for smooth sailing through the Calandbrug canal.
Kalyazin, Russia
Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Tahiti, French Polynesia
Site of James Cook's historic observations of the 1769 transit of Venus.
Auerstedt, Germany
Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.
Sossusvlei, Namibia
This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.
Uribante, Venezuela
A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.
Medicine Bow, Wyoming
A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.
Haría, Spain
Partially collapsed lava tube and cave system complete with concert hall, underground pond, and unique albino crabs.
Peru
Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.
Solomon Islands
The ship that got left behind.
Tilden, Texas
"They died with their boots on."
St. Louis, Missouri
A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.
Eoropaidh, Scotland
A red-brick beacon stands against the tempestuous Atlantic, on the windiest site in the United Kingdom.
Cavite City, Philippines
A man-made island designed to look like a massive battleship.
Hiroshima, Japan
A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.
Georgia
Underground monastery and fortress.
Fremont, California
The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.
Werfen, Austria
The largest ice cave in the world is thought to be the entrance to hell according to Austrian legend.