Punakaiki, New Zealand
Pancake Rocks
This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.
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Punakaiki, New Zealand
This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.
Dunedin, New Zealand
Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.
Waiotapu, New Zealand
This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.
Milford Sound, New Zealand
Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.
Stonington, Connecticut
How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?
Bristol, Rhode Island
The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.
Boston, Massachusetts
The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.
Boston, Massachusetts
"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."
Boston, Massachusetts
This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.
New York, New York
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
Toulouse, France
There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Ennenda, Switzerland
The last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe is remembered in this Swiss museum.
Hólmavík, Iceland
Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.
London, England
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
Melnik, Czechia
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
Paris, France
The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.
Corning, New York
Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.
Peaugres, France
One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.
Krakow, Poland
Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.
Page, Arizona
Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.
Quemado, New Mexico
In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.
Los Angeles, California
Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.