Sabaudia, Italy
Sabaudia
A town saturated in Italian rationalist architecture was once marshland drained by Mussolini.
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Sabaudia, Italy
A town saturated in Italian rationalist architecture was once marshland drained by Mussolini.
Capriate San Gervasio, Italy
A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."
London, England
A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.
Antsalova, Madagascar
Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.
Madagascar
This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.
Mampikony, Madagascar
Giant disc-shaped gate took 20 men to close off this city in Madagascar.
Morondava, Madagascar
The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.
Adak, Alaska
America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.
Ylöjärvi, Finland
This intricately spiralling forest was created as a monumental work of art.
Yelverton, England
This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.
Moscow, Russia
Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.
Moscow, Russia
Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.
Fairbanks, Alaska
Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.
Fairbanks, Alaska
This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.
Empire, Nevada
The Wonder Road aka Doobie Lane, a mile-long strip of dirt road filled with folk art.
Madrid, Spain
A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.
New Mexico
Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.
Borrego Springs, California
Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.
Cerritos, California
A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.
Albany, California
An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."
Stanford, California
A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.
Thiells, New York
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
Austin, Texas
A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.