Menchum, Cameroon
Lake Nyos
Deadliest lake in the world suffocated over 1,746 people in one night.
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Menchum, Cameroon
Deadliest lake in the world suffocated over 1,746 people in one night.
Luanda, Angola
Did Gustav Eiffel design this enigmatic metal building?
West Ballina, Australia
There's nothing shrimpy about the world's largest artificial prawn.
Wagin, Australia
Everything about this over-size novelty animal is huge including its testicles.
Leonora, Australia
This once-booming gold mining hub was basically abandoned overnight.
Robertson, Australia
Concrete spud looks like the North American Sebago.
Duranbah, Australia
Giant fruit signaling the entrance to a tropical paradise.
Coffs Harbour, Australia
One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.
Kingston SE, Australia
A massive metal lobster welcomes tourists to a roadside restaurant.
Bowen, Australia
One of Australia's famed "Big Things," this giant fruit was once stolen as part of a publicity stunt.
Helensburgh, Australia
An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.
Woombye, Australia
A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.
Maras, Peru
This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.
Lima, Peru
The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.
Brasília, Brazil
A stunning Catholic cathedral built by a curve-loving communist in Brazil’s newly created capital.
Laranjal do Jari, Brazil
This gravesite in the Amazon Rainforest was left behind by a failed Third Reich expedition.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Try not to get lost in this picturesque Brazilian labyrinth of the dead.
Cervantes, Australia
Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.
Santo André, Brazil
The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.
Aveiro, Brazil
Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.
Hyden, Australia
This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.
Wentworth Point, Australia
Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.
Australia
An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.
San Andres de Giles, Argentina
Crumbling crypts and overgrown graves rise just out of arm's reach in this forgotten Buenos Aires graveyard.