Copenhagen, Denmark
Jens Olsen's World Clock
The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.
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Copenhagen, Denmark
The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.
Cairo, Egypt
An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.
Alamada, Philippines
This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.
Vevey, Switzerland
At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.
Bluff, Utah
A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.
Mexico City, Mexico
Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.
Ghan, Australia
Finding the exact middle of a giant land mass is hard to determine, but this spot managed to do the trick.
Cresco, Pennsylvania
These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.
Lübeck, Germany
The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.
Kansas City, Missouri
Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.
Queens, New York
This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.
Ngorongoro, Tanzania
This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.
Arlington, Virginia
Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.
Mossel Bay, South Africa
South Africa's postal service began with a letter left in a boot beneath this tree.
Cartagena, Spain
An impressive display of ships and artifacts from the ancient Mediterranean maritime trade.
Glenelg North, Australia
The colony of South Australia was proclaimed on a hot December day under a distinctively arched gum tree.
San Francisco, California
A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.
Stromboli, Italy
A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.
Derby, England
6000-year-old site covered in more than 50 megaliths.
Brooklyn, New York
A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.
Turkmenistan
A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.
Mauritania
A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.
Greece
A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”