Barcelona, Spain
La Carbonería
One of the most photographed buildings in a city known for its Modernista architecture is an abandoned squat.
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Barcelona, Spain
One of the most photographed buildings in a city known for its Modernista architecture is an abandoned squat.
Yelverton, England
The site of a mysterious pony massacre is rich with extraterrestrial conspiracy theories.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.
Komatsushima-shi, Japan
A statue of a mischievous raccoon towers over this city park.
Densuș, Romania
One of the oldest churches in Romania is believed to have been built on the site of a pagan temple.
Viscri, Romania
A medieval church built up to defend its village.
Tonopah, Nevada
An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.
Northome, Minnesota
A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.
Kayenta, Arizona
Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.
Larache, Morocco
A mythical garden that once grew the golden apples of wisdom is said to have existed in this ancient Moroccan city.
Kyiv, Ukraine
A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.
Kyiv, Ukraine
An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.
Boston, Massachusetts
The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.
Aït Ben Haddou, Morocco
A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families
Telouet, Morocco
A mud brick kasbah with a history of lavishness and traitorship.
Valencia, Philippines
A vast personal collection of World War II artifacts unearthed over many years by a father-son duo.
Collodi, Italy
The towering Pinocchio stands 63 feet tall in the Italian village his creator frequented as a child.
Șinca, Romania
No one knows who built this strange cave of worship or exactly why.
Mexico City, Mexico
An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.
Fujinomiya-shi, Japan
A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.
Monroeville, Pennsylvania
This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.
Westerville, Ohio
Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.
Gibraltar
There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock.
Bingen, Germany
The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.