Salzburg, Austria
Zwerglgarten (Dwarf Garden)
Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.
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Salzburg, Austria
Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.
Munich, Germany
Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.
Warrenton, Oregon
100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.
Tillamook, Oregon
No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.
Red Cliff, Colorado
Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.
Farmington, New Mexico
Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.
Trinidad, Colorado
The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.
San Francisco, California
There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.
San Francisco, California
A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.
Cape Charles, Virginia
Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.
Melbourne, Australia
This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.
Cairo, Egypt
A strange aquarium with stuffed fish, and almost no water for them to swim in.
Ibsheway, Egypt
Egyptian treasure trove of fossils documenting the whale's transition from land mammal to sea creature.
Barkley West, South Africa
Fascinating collection of Khoisan rock engravings, still situated in their original setting.
Namibia
The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.
Namibia
Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.
Mecca, California
World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.
Peru
These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.
San Antonio de Pichincha, Ecuador
Home of the "true" equator.
Eaglehawk Neck, Australia
This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.
Raymond Island, Australia
Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.
Port Arthur, Australia
Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.
Ansons Bay, Australia
Aqua white sand highlighted with fiery red rocks.