Danville, Vermont
The Forgotten Village at Greenbank's Hollow
Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.
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Danville, Vermont
Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.
Jaca, Spain
This religious complex carved into a cliff is steeped in legends of miraculous stags and the Holy Grail.
Iceland
This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.
Enbekshikazakh District, Kazakhstan
The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.
Wah, Pakistan
A mere stone's throw from Islamabad exists a spectacular display of three millennia of humanity's progress.
Cache, Oklahoma
This little slice of old Jerusalem in Oklahoma is the evolution of a century-old passion play.
Bellows Falls, Vermont
These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.
Overton, Nevada
Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.
Narsarsuaq, Greenland
An experimental forest at the foreground of arboreal science is also the canary in the coal mine for climate change.
Carloway, Scotland
A magnificent, iconic stone tower in the Scottish Highlands.
Wexford, Ireland
After being destroyed by IRA sympathizers, the ruins of this stately Irish manor have sat vacant for decades.
Sulzbach, Germany
Germany has its very own Centralia, whose spark remains attributed to "spontaneous combustion."
Kinderdijk, Netherlands
Birthplace of the "Cat in the Cradle" and a cluster of iconic, original windmills that let the Dutch tame the seas.
Providenciales and West Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands
This island hill is strewn with boulders carved by shipwreck victims from the age of sail.
Kerch, Ukraine
The saltiest lake in all of Crimea is also the pinkest of the pink and teeming with life.
Copán Ruinas, Honduras
A full-size replica of this well-preserved temple lets you take a walk through the Mayan age.
Outer Hebrides, Scotland
This remote Scottish isle is only inhabited by seals, birds, and the memory of a tragic settlement.
Moundville, Alabama
A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.
Pomfret, Connecticut
A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.
Studenci, Bosnia and Herzegovina
There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.
Madrid, Spain
Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This historic cemetery was inaccessible for several years due to dozens of land mines.
Saint-Pierre-Colamine, France
A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.
Helen, Georgia
This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.