Austin, Nevada
U.S. Route 50
Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.
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Austin, Nevada
Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.
Mexico City, Mexico
An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.
Mexico City, Mexico
Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.
Mexico City, Mexico
A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.
Littlefield, Arizona
An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.
Springdale, Utah
The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.
Wendover, Utah
Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Turkmenistan
A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.
Fujinomiya-shi, Japan
A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.
Prypiat, Ukraine
The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.
Ishinomaki, Japan
On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Alamo, Nevada
Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.