Glasgow, Scotland
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An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.
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Glasgow, Scotland
An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.
Accra, Ghana
This grounded passenger jet is now a restaurant, complete with rows of seats and “flight attendant” servers.
Tehran, Iran
A graveyard of old and rare planes that once were the glory of Persian aviation.
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
An aviation relic that made coast-to-coast travel possible.
Schiphol, Netherlands
This old KLM airplane cut into three parts was transformed into an eclectic airport gift shop.
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
This massive piece of aviation history calls this residential neighborhood home.
Malindi, Kenya
Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.
Anstruther, Scotland
Bronze plates placed around this Scottish fishing village form a true-scale model of the solar system.
Cedar Creek, Texas
A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.
Boston, Massachusetts
The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.
Jaipur, India
The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.
Piton Sainte-Rose, Réunion
At the foot of an active volcano sits a church miraculously spared by its lava.
Dhaka, Bangladesh
This colorful palace is an oasis of calm amid the hustle and bustle of the Buriganga riverfront.
Mount Desert, Maine
A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.
Michamvi, Tanzania
Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.
Sundance, Wyoming
An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.
Los Angeles, California
America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.
San Francisco, California
A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.
San Francisco, California
San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.
Glendale, California
This childhood throwback has hundreds of arcade games and pinball machines to transport you back in time.
Kunene Region, Namibia
Ancient artists in the middle of nowhere.
Ruokolahti, Finland
Legend has this precariously placed rock was placed by giants. Science has another explanation.
Ochopee, Florida
In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.
Rapid City, South Dakota
Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.