Tacoma, Washington
Bob's Java Jive
Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.
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Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.
Benton Harbor, Michigan
The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.
Cramlington, England
A million and a half tons of earth were used to create one of the world's largest land sculptures.
Berlin, Germany
A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.
Odry, Poland
Deep in a Polish forest, this collection of Iron Age megaliths still holds onto many of its ancient secrets.
Giverny, France
At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.
Brno, Czechia
A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.
Boa Vista, Cabo Verde
This ship carrying cargo and four church bells for the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida ran aground in 1968.
Shammar, Mongolia
This spiritual landmark for practicers of Shamanism is drenched in milk and vodka and covered in blue scarves.
Manětín, Czechia
Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.
Reno, Nevada
The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.
Jeffrey City, Wyoming
This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.
Gaffney, South Carolina
The record holder for the world’s largest peach.
Rapid City, South Dakota
South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.
Baturiti, Indonesia
An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.
Archbald, Pennsylvania
It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.
Yachats, Oregon
On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.
Biloxi, Mississippi
A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.
Phoenix, Arizona
This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.
New York, New York
Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.
Denmark / Canada
A long-disputed island that Denmark and Canada claim by periodically alternating flags and bottles of liquor.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This is the house that spite built.