Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Masdar City
Planned as the world’s first zero-carbon city, it had lofty ideals—but is only 5 percent completed and aiming for 50 percent carbon-neutral.
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Planned as the world’s first zero-carbon city, it had lofty ideals—but is only 5 percent completed and aiming for 50 percent carbon-neutral.
Mexico City, Mexico
Mexico City's residents are being watched by this state surveillance headquarters, designed by architects with a flair for intimidation.
Madeira Beach, Florida
Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.
Lake Wales, Florida
A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.
Vatican City
These spartan apartments are provided to clergymen visiting Vatican City.
Groom Lake, Nevada
In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.
Bern, Switzerland
This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.
Bommayapalayam, India
This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.
Los Altos, California
The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.
Petersburg, Kentucky
A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.
Turin, Italy
Some people believe that this makeshift space monitoring station received transmissions from clandestine cosmonauts.
Batavia, Illinois
World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
Meyrin, Switzerland
Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.