Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Kites
This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.
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Tokyo, Japan
This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.
Fregene, Italy
This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.
Bodfish, California
One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.
Inyo County, California
This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.
Phillipsville, California
A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.
Humboldt County, California
One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.
Junction City, California
A Tibetan Temple and Buddhist organization just off the beaten path in Northern California.
McCloud, California
This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.
Lexington, Oregon
Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.
Sisters, Oregon
The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.
Oregon
Unknown to many, this sparkling turquoise lake hides amid Oregon's snowcapped mountains.
Panueli, Solomon Islands
Megapodes incubate their eggs using the heat of an active volcano on this Pacific isle.
Saint-Ouen, France
Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.
Paris, France
Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.
Naxos, Greece
This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.
Acharnes, Greece
This beehive tomb built for royalty sat hidden for over 3,000 years.
Heraklion, Greece
This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.
Nisi, Greece
Poseidon? No one seems to know.
Samos Prefecture, Greece
Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.
Santorini, Greece
A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.
Heraklion, Greece
A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.
Andros, Greece
Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.
New York, New York
This tiny store is your one-stop shop for all sorts of rare and wonderful buttons.
Brooklyn, New York
Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.