Brazil
Snake Island (Ilha da Queimada Grande)
Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.
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Brazil
Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.
Peebles, Ohio
The largest earthwork effigy in the world.
Atlantic Ocean
Fascination continues to surround one of history's most infamous shipwrecks.
Micronesia
Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.
Greenland
The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.
Evenkiysky District, Russia
Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.
Prypiat, Ukraine
The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Palermo, Italy
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
Saint-Bonnet-le-Château, France
Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.
Stockholm, Sweden
It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.
Antarctica
Largest sub-glacial lake ever discovered.
Paris, France
The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.
Livermore, California
The longest burning light bulb in the world.
San Jose, California
An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
San Francisco, California
The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.
London, England
The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.
Amesbury, England
Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world
Mexico City, Mexico
An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.
London, England
A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Bishop's Castle, England
The oldest working Brewery in Britain.