Brooklyn, New York
Green-Wood Cemetery
A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.
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Brooklyn, New York
A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Denver, Colorado
The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.
Homestead, Florida
A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.
Indianapolis, Indiana
A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.
Baltimore, Maryland
A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.
Newport, Rhode Island
The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.
Boston, Massachusetts
This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.
Chicago, Illinois
A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.
Chloraka, Cyprus
This abandoned ship has remained in place since it ran aground in 1998.
Paphos, Cyprus
An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.
Paphos, Cyprus
The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.
Kouklia, Cyprus
This sea stack in Cyprus is traditionally seen as the birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite.
Kolossi, Cyprus
This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.
Nicosia, Cyprus
This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
Xian Shi, China
A life-sized imperial army, buried in battle formation, has stood underground for over 2,000 years—built not for war, but for eternity.
Page, Arizona
A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.
Halchita, Utah
The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.
Monticello, Utah
One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.
Moab, Utah
Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.
Havana, Cuba
A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.
Memphis, Tennessee
Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.