Mafra, Portugal
Mafra Palace Library
At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.
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Mafra, Portugal
At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.
West Lafayette, Indiana
Historians and hobbyists head to this former French outpost for the annual Feast of the Hunters' Moon.
Denton, Texas
A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.
Midland, South Dakota
Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.
Detroit, Michigan
This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.
Cedar, Michigan
A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.
Hokkaidō, Japan
This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.
Waddinxveen, Netherlands
Yup, that's a 330-foot yacht passing over the highway.
Santa Coloma de Cervelló, Spain
The abandoned ruins of a beautiful medieval castle just outside Barcelona.
Ōzora-chō, Japan
Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.
Rjukan, Norway
For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.
Newport, Rhode Island
The tennis legend used this racket while breaking the race barrier and becoming the first Black man to win the US Open.
Redmond, Washington
This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.
Montserrat
George Martin's Caribbean recording studio now rots within the shadow of an active volcano.
Danvers, Massachusetts
The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.
Smyrna, New York
See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.
Juneau, Alaska
On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.
Viggianello, Italy
The oldest scientifically dated tree in Europe lives on a remote cliff.
Brattleboro, Vermont
Play everything you see at a museum dedicated to a town's historic organ industry.
Hartford, Connecticut
A portrait of the Charter Oak hangs in a frame made from the Charter Oak.
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.
Stony Point, New York
Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.
Honeoye Falls, New York
An unassuming nature trail winds through dozens of tiny houses built for the wee people.
Cantil, California
Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.