Fairbanks, Alaska
Aurora Ice Museum
Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.
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Fairbanks, Alaska
Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.
North Pole, Alaska
An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.
Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.
La Paz, Bolivia
Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.
Collodi, Italy
Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.
Dorset, Vermont
This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.
Red Hook, New York
For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.
Haines Falls, New York
A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.
Howes Cave, New York
Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?
Howes Cave, New York
Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.
Little Falls, New York
Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.
Cooperstown, New York
A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.
Portland, Oregon
This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.
Paisley, Scotland
A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.
Waterford, Connecticut
Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.
Oakland, California
An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.
Holyoke, Massachusetts
A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.
Becket, Massachusetts
Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.
Rome, Italy
At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.
Rome, Italy
A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.
Rome, Italy
Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.
Naples, Italy
The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.
Canale Monterano, Italy
The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.
Rome, Italy
An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.