Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands
Efteling Sprookjesbos
This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.
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Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands
This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.
Turner, Oregon
This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.
Tanami East, Australia
The Australian lorikeets that like to tie one on in an annual drinking binge.
Sheffield, England
Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."
Davis, California
This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.
Tambopata, Peru
The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.
Ventnor, Australia
An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.
Fairfield, Australia
Is there such thing as too many fruit bats? Not anymore.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Austin, Texas
A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.
Cleveland, Ohio
Abandoned since the 1950s, the streetcar lane beneath the heavily trafficked bridge lays empty and unused.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.
Huntsville, Alabama
What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?
Matera, Italy
People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.
Ottawa, Ontario
This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.
Staten Island, New York
Failed state-supported institution meant to rehabilitate students with intellectual disabilities.
Wheeling, West Virginia
This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.
White Pine County, Nevada
These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.
Aveiro, Brazil
Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.
Moundsville, West Virginia
Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.
Thurmond, West Virginia
Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.