Fackler, Alabama
Neversink Pit
This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.
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Fackler, Alabama
This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.
Florida
This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.
Rothesay, Scotland
A bay of elaborate, historic toilets are held in high esteem at this Scottish dock.
Çanakkale, Turkey
This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.
Demre, Turkey
A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.
Ocaklı Köyü, Turkey
An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.
Kayaköy, Turkey
A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.
Sunol-Midtown, California
A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.
San Francisco, California
A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.
Frederiksberg, Denmark
A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.
Orvieto, Italy
This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.
Fairhope, Alabama
This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'
Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Sonora, Texas
A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.
Lewes, Delaware
The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.
Washington, D.C.
The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.
Seattle, Washington
Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.
Erfurt, Germany
This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.
Ketura, Israel
This tree was extinct for a thousand years before sprouting again from a 2,000-year-old seed.
Chedglow, England
Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.
Baraboo, Wisconsin
A large circus museum with summer performances.
Sydney, Australia
An ancient engraving by the Cammeraygal people was uncovered in the transformation of a North Sydney industrial site.
Sydney, Australia
Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.
Sydney, Australia
A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.