Laos
Kong Lor Cave
A boat ride through utter darkness, lit only by headlamps, reveals an emerald green pool locals believe is sacred.
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Laos
A boat ride through utter darkness, lit only by headlamps, reveals an emerald green pool locals believe is sacred.
Dundee, Scotland
A bronze tribute to the wildly popular video game from the '90s.
Birgu, Malta
This almost-forgotten underground dungeon housed several convicts over the years, including Caravaggio.
Lund, Sweden
A modern, secular take on a traditional Virgin Mary motif.
Prague, Czechia
This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.
sovkhoza im. Lenina, Russia
A magnificent, Disneyesque chateau built for 150 lucky kindergarteners.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.
Ars-en-Ré, France
For those late-night mollusk cravings.
West Stockwith, England
In the right conditions a wall of water up to five feet tall flows upstream against the current on the River Trent.
Saint Andrews, New Brunswick
A rare opportunity to drive across the ocean floor.
Cherhill, England
The geoglyph once sported a glass bottle eye.
Washington, D.C.
The only National Monument ever to go missing for nearly 50 years then resurface in a dump.
Italy
A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.
Rere, New Zealand
Nature's slip and slide.
Sonora, Texas
A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.
Budapest, Hungary
This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.
Molepolole, Botswana
The historic cave is both a symbol of superstition and black magic and inspired one of the early Christian converts in Botswana.
Oak Hill, West Virginia
A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.
Ishøj, Denmark
Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.
North Atlantic Ocean
The only sea in the world that has no land boundary.
Helsingborg, Sweden
From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.
Budapest, Hungary
The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.
ambon Kalai, Thailand
A tall karst islet popularized by 007.