Ödeshög, Sweden
Rök Rune Stone
This encrypted monolith protected a secret of Norse mythology by hiding in a church wall for over a millennium.
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Ödeshög, Sweden
This encrypted monolith protected a secret of Norse mythology by hiding in a church wall for over a millennium.
Turnov, Czechia
Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.
Hamelin Pool, Australia
Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.
Carbon County, Utah
Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.
Stromness, Scotland
Thanks to both terrific preservation and historic vandalism this ancient site is known as the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney."
Oroszlány, Hungary
This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.
Graz, Austria
Resting in the middle of an Austrian river, this sci-fi "island" lets people cross in neon style.
Budapest, Hungary
This hidden art nouveau gem was designed by an architect in search of a national style.
Naica, Mexico
A gargantuan crystal kingdom.
Krakow, Poland
Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.
Sveg, Sweden
This massive Trojan ursine was built to be a new tourist symbol for a small Swedish town.
Alta, Norway
The world's northernmost ice hotel.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Vernal, Utah
Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.
Perca, Italy
These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.
Baltasound, Scotland
This Shetland Islands bus shelter may be small, but it squeezes in a couch, a desk, some art, and even an old telly.
Hyden, Australia
This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.
Midway, Utah
This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.
Dolní Morava, Czechia
The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.
Stockholm, Sweden
This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Pittenweem, Scotland
This tiny little cave was said to have been a refuge for a saint with a glowing arm.
Moab, Utah
This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.
Garfield County, Utah
Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.