Douglas, Isle of Man
Groudle Glen Water Wheel
This Victorian water wheel is affectionately nicknamed "Little Isabella."
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Douglas, Isle of Man
This Victorian water wheel is affectionately nicknamed "Little Isabella."
Mamou, Louisiana
“The Cajun Music Capital of the World” has kept things French in a Louisiana prairie town for over 75 years.
Bon Aqua, Tennessee
A fictional Coupe DeVille built by hand and gifted to the Man in Black himself.
Ville Platte, Louisiana
A museum within a former train depot tells the true story of a distinctly French-Louisiana musical genre.
Frankfurt, Germany
Revitalization efforts converted a former U.S. military heliport into a sprawling urban park.
Nazaré, Portugal
A deer-headed statue that brings together a 12th-century legend and big wave surfing.
Nuremberg, Germany
A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.
Cayce, South Carolina
A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.
Oslo, Norway
This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.
Uchon, France
Erosion left these fascinating granite formations strewn across fields and mountains in Burgundy.
Townville, South Carolina
A 1960s damming project turned one family’s hilltop cemetery into an island.
Collingwood, Australia
A train car sitting on a rooftop makes an unlikely and picturesque setting for dinner.
Sasaguri, Japan
A serene mountaintop temple complex featuring one big, bronze Buddha.
Aachen, Germany
A former customs station on the border of Germany and the Netherlands.
Stratford, Connecticut
This eclectic homestead is home to a miniature windmill and Connecticut's last tollbooth.
Bordentown, New Jersey
A New Jersey state park that was once Napoleon's brother's sprawling estate.
Chinguetti, Mauritania
An architectural relic that survived the hands of time.
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.
St. John's, Isle of Man
Believed to be the former location of one of the earliest Viking assemblies in Europe.
Singapore
An artist crafted this lonely left hand as an imagined relic from Singapore's history.
Birmingham, Alabama
In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.
Baguio, Philippines
Just off the road outside Baguio, a gigantic lion's head carved into a mountain greets those driving by.
La Magdeleine, Italy
These ruins on Mont Tantané dates back to the Iron Age, but there is limited evidence for why a village was built so far from water or other resources.
Verona, Italy
A gorgeous example of 13th-century Gothic architecture.