Chitina, Alaska
Kennicott Ghost Town
The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.
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Chitina, Alaska
The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.
Chiusdino, Italy
This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.
Pinofranqueado, Spain
Remote, beautiful, and stigmatized, Las Hurdes is Spain's version of Appalachia.
Villavieja, Colombia
Unparalleled stargazing, one of Colombia's best observatories, and a swimming pool can all be found in the middle of this ancient tropical forest.
Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.
Calipatria, California
This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.
San Bernardino County, California
In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.
McKittrick, California
Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.
La Cañada Flintridge, California
An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.
Punta Arenas, Chile
The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.
Port Renfrew, British Columbia
Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.
Matavun, Slovenia
This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."
Malakwa, British Columbia
An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.
Mount Colah, Australia
An ancient rock engraving shows Aboriginals used their advanced knowledge of the stars to hunt and gather.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
Turkmenistan
A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.
Malindi, Kenya
Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.
Yemen
The most alien-looking place on Earth.
Kansas City, Missouri
A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.
Rome, Italy
Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.
Waterloo, England
A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.
Mexico
The enigmatic and seldom visited ruins of a Mayan city-state.
Chichen Itza, Mexico
Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.
Leiden, Netherlands
A former plague hospital turned medical museum.