Waxahachie, Texas
Desertron: The Superconducting Super Collider
A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.
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Waxahachie, Texas
A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.
Ingram, Texas
A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.
Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Royse City, Texas
This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.
Waxahachie, Texas
A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.
Cornhill-on-Tweed, England
A father's love for his son has weathered the test of time in this whimsical garden of outsider art.
Diani Beach, Kenya
Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.
Nairobi, Kenya
The farmhouse owned by the Danish author who wrote "Out of Africa" is now a museum honoring her legacy.
Nairobi, Kenya
Strolling through these vintage locomotives offers a surprising amount of insight into the history of Kenya.
Lamu, Kenya
Kenya’s oldest town is more than 700 years old and home to 6,000 donkeys.
Nairobi, Kenya
A glass and sculpture wonderland forms an oasis in a remote part of Kenya.
Marafa, Kenya
Strange sandstone canyon known as the "place broken by itself."
Kenya
A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.
Nairobi, Kenya
Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.
Paris, France
A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.
Saint-Ouen, France
Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.
Paris, France
This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.
Paris, France
Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.
Paris, France
A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.
Paris, France
This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.
Paris, France
Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.
Paris, France
How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?