Cheverie, Nova Scotia
Camera Obscura
Experience the magic (and science) of a camera with this giant structure that allows you to enter inside the camera.
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Cheverie, Nova Scotia
Experience the magic (and science) of a camera with this giant structure that allows you to enter inside the camera.
North, Arkansas
The warmest cave in the Ozarks features two seemingly bottomless lakes.
Belgrade, Serbia
Two buildings named after their windows that make it look like a sea of television sets plastered to a wall.
Conca dei Marini, Italy
A limestone grotto where daylight filters in from below and turns the water a beautiful turquoise. Also home to a small underwater nativity scene.
Huế, Vietnam
Perhaps the only one of its kind, the nearly-forgotten site once held mortal (and rigged) gladiatorial games between tigers and imperial war elephants.
Seattle, Washington
Old 'Nutcracker' sculptures from 'Where the Wild Things Are' author found new life as a seasonal attraction.
Rome, Italy
Inside this building is another country within Rome, a sovereign entity without a physical territory.
Roccastrada, Italy
Visit a secretive crypt before it crumbles to dust.
Ibiza, Spain
An unexpected homage to 90s celebrities hidden in a corner of Ibiza.
Karachi, Pakistan
A shrine in Karachi is home to around 100 crocodiles that are regarded as sacred.
Decatur, Georgia
Nature (and graffiti) reclaim this old waterworks that has been surrounded by a bike path and network of walking trails.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Long before the Battle of Gettysburg occurred, dinosaurs roamed the area and left their footprints on this bridge.
Sydney, Australia
A rare specimen of an iconic extinct animal in downtown Sydney.
Richmond, Virginia
In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.
Basel, Switzerland
The world's largest collection of fire-fighting items dating back almost 350 years.
Medicine Hat, Alberta
A standalone wonder amid the prairie badlands of southeastern Alberta.
Tilley, Alberta
Built to supply water to farmers in Alberta, this was once was the world's longest elevated concrete structure.
Berlin, Germany
A statue of an astronomer gazes at the sky as a tribute to Caroline Herschel.
Kyoto, Japan
A strip of traditional hand towel serves as an admission ticket at this modern tenugui museum.
Tallinn, Estonia
This free museum is building a collection of books that are banned, censored or burnt around the world.
Fukuoka, Japan
The birthplace of the Japanese idiom "wet clothes" meaning “false accusation."
Buffalo, New York
The only boathouse Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed was also the only unbuilt structure in his famous Wasmuth Portfolio, until 2007.
Madrid, Spain
Once a resting spot for King Fernando VII.
Miedzianka, Poland
This formerly-prosperous Silesian mining town was completely demolished in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an attempt to cover up a secret Soviet uranium mine.