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Isla Vista, California
360-degree virtual reality chamber physically immerses scientists into their data.
Denizli, Turkey
Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.
Moires, Greece
Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.
Kayaköy, Turkey
A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.
Rome, Italy
A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.
Melnik, Czechia
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.
Faro, Portugal
This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.
Fujinomiya-shi, Japan
A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.
Guadalupe, California
Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.
Abhaneri, India
Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.
Nanwei, Micronesia
The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.
Budapest, Hungary
Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.
Chicago, Illinois
The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.
Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, France
The world's most famous cheese caves.
Shibam, Yemen
A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."
Ivolginskiy datsan, Russia
The mummified remains of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Russia's most important Buddhist.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Prague, Czechia
Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.
Chile
A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.