Great Dunmow, England
Talliston House & Gardens
An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.
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Great Dunmow, England
An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.
Haleyville, Alabama
148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.
Johns Island, South Carolina
One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.
Nairobi, Kenya
Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.
Hpa-An, Myanmar
Caves full of Buddhist statues, incredible rock formations and a deserted lagoon.
Speers, Saskatchewan
The Twisted Trees of Alticane are an unnerving grove of Quaking Aspen, apparently mutated from a single source, giving them a twisted and unnatural appearance.
Orost, Iran
Iran's colorful terraces are a rare geological masterpiece.
Civita, Italy
This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.
Røst, Norway
The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.
San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, Spain
Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.
Verzy, France
Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.
Kumejima-chō, Japan
Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.
Rome, Italy
Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.
Florence, Italy
An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.
Tsuruoka, Japan
The self-mummified monks of Japan.
Cleveland, Ohio
The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.
Turkmenistan
A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.
Berlin, Germany
What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.
Khumjung, Nepal
A Himalayan monastery claims to have a piece of a centuries-old abominable snowman.
Orem, Utah
An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.
Lima, Peru
Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.
Muang Kham, Laos
A tangible and sobering reminder of an atrocity that took place during a secret war.