Paris, France
The Recumbent Effigy of Victor Noir
How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?
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Paris, France
How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Paris, France
Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.
New York, New York
A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.
Launceston, England
Now nearly dry, this lake is said to be the ancient home of the Lady of the Lake, and was once thought to be bottomless.
West Windsor Township, New Jersey
A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.
Farmingdale, New Jersey
Creaky dinosaurs grow in the backroads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Lakehurst, New Jersey
The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.
Brooklyn, New York
This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.
Washington, D.C.
The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.
New York, New York
The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.
Bronx, New York
The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.
Vigevano, Italy
The Cathedral of St. Ambrose has been hiding a special parishioner within its walls.
Bellevue, Alberta
A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.
Osoyoos, British Columbia
A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.
Sanca, British Columbia
This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.
Le Raincy, France
1920's reinforced concrete church by architect Auguste Perret changes the face of modern design.
Sydney, Australia
Outdoor art exhibition made of classic Tetris pieces.
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
The hottest place on the planet.
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.
Djibouti
A salt lake dotted with steaming limestone chimneys.
Afar Zone 1, Ethiopia
An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.
Kuraginsky District, Russia
Home of Vissarion, the "Jesus of Siberia."