Tarragona, Spain
Pont del Diable
Stunning Roman aqueduct used for 1900 years and still standing.
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Tarragona, Spain
Stunning Roman aqueduct used for 1900 years and still standing.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
New York, New York
Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.
Georgia
A gleaming white and undulating tower marks the border between Georgia and Turkey.
Chicago, Illinois
A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.
Warsaw, Poland
Ruins of a late 1950s Polish ski jump ramp in the middle of the city.
San Francisco, California
The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.
Aralsk, Kazakhstan
Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.
Mauritania
A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.
Negril, Jamaica
Cavernous opening completely encased in Karst limestone.
East Sussex, England
England's most notorious suicide spot.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.
Santa Rosa, California
340 bicycles, 65 feet high.
Kunming, China
270 million year-old forest of stone.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.
Duffield, Virginia
A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.
Australia
This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.
Kaali, Estonia
Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.
Ludvika, Sweden
Tiny Swedish village with a distinct local phenomenon known as an "Elk Shower."
Delabole, England
Britain's oldest and biggest hole in the ground.
Sudbury, Ontario
A neutrino detector built into the largest man-made underground cavity in the world.
Gorna krepost, Bulgaria
An ancient Thracian city where fire rituals were practiced on the largest cult altar in Southeast Europe.