Wroxall, England
Appuldurcombe House
This shell of a historic manor house on the Isle of Wight is said to be the most haunted site on the island.
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Wroxall, England
This shell of a historic manor house on the Isle of Wight is said to be the most haunted site on the island.
Demre, Turkey
A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.
Hot Springs, North Carolina
North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.
Holmegaard, Denmark
The greatest amusement park in the world is wall-to-wall farting dogs, puking rats, and cows with exposed breasts for the whole family.
Kawasaki, Japan
A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.
New Taipei City, Taiwan
Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.
Liwonde, Malawi
A hollowed-out baobab that became the horrific final resting place of leprosy sufferers, with gruesome evidence to prove it.
Kuta Selatan, Indonesia
This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.
Mono County, California
This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.
Polldubh, Scotland
The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.
Oldtown, Maryland
Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.
Beverly Hills, California
Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.
Corella, Philippines
A patch of Philippines forest devoted to saving the lives of an emotionally sensitive species of googly-eyed primates.
Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands
A sanctuary for sickly, stray, or wounded donkeys.
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.
London, England
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
Kazan, Russia
This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.
Borgloon, Belgium
Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.
Peninsula, Ohio
The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.
Sun Valley, Idaho
Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.
Ferrara di Monte Baldo, Italy
This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.
Whistler, British Columbia
The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.
Wellington, New Zealand
A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.
Korčula, Croatia
When Croatia became independent of Yugoslavia, the splintering governments left behind these concrete tunnels.