Glasgow, Scotland
The Govan Cat
This small memorial honors a ferocious feline and local hero.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Glasgow, Scotland
This small memorial honors a ferocious feline and local hero.
Tallinn, Estonia
A forest park outside Tallinn full of architectural and artistic curiosities.
Tallinn, Estonia
Spend your honeymoon where the Devil had his wedding.
Brooklyn, New York
This recipe is set in stone.
Kantubek, Uzbekistan
Former island in the Aral Sea used to be a top-secret Russian bio-weapons facility.
Muynak District, Uzbekistan
Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.
Nukus, Uzbekistan
The ruins of an ancient Zoroastrian Tower of Silence believed to be the earliest example of the traditional funerary practice.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
An eccentric dictator's take on a Turkmen version of Disneyland.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
This harsh mountain path was built as a strange attempt to improve the health of Turkmen citizens.
Gokdepe, Turkmenistan
A memorial to the thousands of Turkmen soldiers and civilians who died in a bloody 1881 battle.
Nokhur, Turkmenistan
A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.
Gokdepe, Turkmenistan
This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.
Turkmenistan
A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.
Augsburg, Germany
In the city forest of Augsburg are oval, artificial ponds formed from a World War II bombing campaign.
Oakland, California
Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.
Inverness, California
The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.
Los Angeles, California
Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."
Bastrop, Texas
The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.
Province de Ouarzazate, Morocco
An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."
Oravský Podzámok, Slovakia
The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."
Jalpan de Serra, Mexico
The building that houses this museum is as historic as its collection.