Cerne Abbas, England
The Cerne Abbas Giant
Giant naked man on a hillside.
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Cerne Abbas, England
Giant naked man on a hillside.
Tintagel, England
A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.
Saint Blazey, England
The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.
Huara, Chile
One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.
Chile
A fantastical group of cliffside stairways, bridges, and twisting paths carved out of stone provide a surreal coastal hike.
Sandwick, Scotland
Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.
Kunoy, Faroe Islands
The abandoned village of Skarð aptly illustrates the idiom "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."
Faroe Islands
The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.
Gasadalur Village, Faroe Islands
This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .
Fortingall, Scotland
Possibly the oldest living thing in Europe, more likely a pagan survivor.
Sumburgh, Scotland
This picturesque archeological site looks like it was pulled straight from a fantasy novel.
Isle of Staffa, Scotland
This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.
Luster, Norway
A stunning silver lining to global warming's gloomy cloud.
Paris, France
This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.
Paris, France
Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.
Delta, Utah
Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.
Iceland
Rising from the sea like a stone monster.
Bíldudalur, Iceland
The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.