Urfa, Turkey
Balıklıgöl
A sacred lake with thousands of sacred carp and a biblical history.
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Urfa, Turkey
A sacred lake with thousands of sacred carp and a biblical history.
Antarctica
Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.
Ballycastle, Northern Ireland
The lake that fills and empties itself at random.
Denizli, Turkey
Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.
Sidoarjo, Indonesia
A mud volcano in Indonesia spews out 50,000 cubic meters of mud every day.
Nouméa, New Caledonia
Marvel of green building techniques that sings with the wind.
Brookfield, Vermont
One car at a time please.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.
Charmouth, England
Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.
Lyme Regis, England
A midnight snack that lights up the night.
Jämtland, Sweden
A botched 18th-century canal silenced one of Sweden's most magnificent waterfalls.
Namerikawa, Japan
Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.
Nanwei, Micronesia
The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.
Marshall Islands
An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.
Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Québec
This chilly Canadian hotel has a four-month lifespan due to the unusual material it's made of.
Québec City, Québec
Train tunnel running underneath Quebec City.
Bahamas
A steamer run aground near Bimini lives a second life as a playground for scuba divers.
San Francisco, California
A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.
San Francisco, California
The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.
San Francisco, California
The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.
Viterbo, Italy
This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.
Fraser Island, Australia
The only pollutant in the clear blue water is sunscreen.
Fraser Island, Australia
WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.
Naftalan, Azerbaijan
In oil-rich Azerbaijan, people bathe in the black stuff.