Swindon, England
Swindon Magic Roundabout
This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.
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Swindon, England
This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.
Hanover, Germany
An extraordinary mechanical calculator designed by the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz.
Tanami East, Australia
The Australian lorikeets that like to tie one on in an annual drinking binge.
Tombstone, Arizona
The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.
Arsi, Ethiopia
Ethiopian standing stones featuring remarkably preserved carvings of swords and people.
Macdoel, California
This abandoned motel doesn't welcome guests anymore, but decay and a creepy atmosphere still call it home.
Santiago, Chile
A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.
Providence, Rhode Island
A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.
Dunino, Scotland
A site of pagan worship which still attracts people looking for fairies.
Huehuetlán, Mexico
The largest cave shaft in the world is home to thousands of birds and popular with BASE jumpers.
Boulder, Colorado
This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.
United States Minor Outlying Islands
An abandoned guano-mining city in the South Pacific.
La Paz, Bolivia
A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.
San Francisco, California
Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.
Nouadhibou, Mauritania
The world's largest ship graveyard is the product of decades of corruption.
Noasca, Italy
This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.
Marble Bar, Australia
Microscopic fossils suggest Australia may be the birthplace of sulphur-based life forms.
Los Angeles, California
The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.
Longwood, Saint Helena
Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.
Boston, Massachusetts
The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.
Rosser, Manitoba
Mysterious concrete spires left on a small Canadian hill.
Stamford, Connecticut
An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.
Santo Amaro do Maranhão, Brazil
A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.