Copenhagen, Denmark
Agnete and the Merman
Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.
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Copenhagen, Denmark
Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.
Ishøj, Denmark
Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.
Chester, England
Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.
Holtålen, Norway
Research station devoted to mysterious floating lights seen in a Norwegian valley.
Gurdon, Arkansas
A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.
Washington, D.C.
A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.
Essex, Connecticut
This museum holds a fully-functional replica of the "Turtle," the first American submarine ever built.
Mexico City, Mexico
CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.
San Francisco, California
The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.
Kuala Penyu, Malaysia
This tiny island in the South China Sea is crawling with venomous sea snakes.
West Berlin, New Jersey
Destructive children, start your engines.
Egg Harbor City, New Jersey
This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.
San Jon, New Mexico
The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.
Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
Jerome, Arizona
On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.
Hammonton, New Jersey
In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.
Tegar, India
This abandoned palace and the stupas around it conceal beautiful Buddhist frescoes, statues, and silk paintings.
Malmö, Sweden
Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.
Helsingborg, Sweden
From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.
Hartford, Connecticut
An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.