Mexico City, Mexico
Cafebrería El Péndulo
Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.
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Mexico City, Mexico
Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.
Korolyov, Russia
This iconic Russian space museum sits on a landmark space production facility and houses the Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft, that was also built here.
Shchyolkovo, Russia
Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan
World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.
Newcastle, Australia
By standing on a particular paving stone in the courtyard, you'll hear an echo that shouldn't be.
Da Nang, Vietnam
This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.
Québec City, Québec
Train tunnel running underneath Quebec City.
Rangely, Colorado
Metal water storage tank turned ethereal concert hall.
Helsinki, Finland
Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.
Porto, Portugal
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
Calcata Vecchia, Italy
Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.
Denizli Merkez, Turkey
A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.
São Paulo, Brazil
The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.
Porto do Son, Spain
Seaside ruins of a settlement that date back to the first century B.C.
Mokpo-si, South Korea
Natural rock formations resembling monks in hats inspire folk legends.
Ballymoney, Northern Ireland
The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.
Al-Khums, Libya
Magnificent Roman ruins lie vulnerable to destruction on the edge of the Mediterranean.
Paris, France
Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.
Barbados
A giant gun barrel in Barbados that once hoped to shoot outer space with science.
Aso, Japan
The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.
Sausalito, California
A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.
Guernsey
Underground hospital complex constructed by slave laborers during the German occupation of the Channel Islands.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This is the house that spite built.