Truckee, California
Donner Pass Summit Tunnels
The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.
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Truckee, California
The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.
Obergoms VS, Switzerland
A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.
Xingtai Shi, China
This terrifying glass bridge on the side of a mountain cracks as you step on it.
Ballymoney, Northern Ireland
The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.
Leavenworth, Washington
The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.
Eugene, Oregon
This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.
Outer Hebrides, Scotland
The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.
Nassau, Bahamas
Impressive sink holes fill this untouched old-growth forest in the Bahamas.
Improvement District No. 9, Alberta
The only way to visit this old resort hotel is with scuba gear.
Tissington, England
The tradition of using flowers to decorate wells is once again thriving in England.
Iceland
This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.
Stoneham, Massachusetts
This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.
Masada, Israel
This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.
Finland
Crawling into this primordial cave may feel disconcertingly familiar.
Rincon de Parangueo, Mexico
A dark tunnel leads to a striking white crater that seems to be from another planet.
Maidstone, England
This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.
Wernigerode, Germany
On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.
Mansfield, England
An enigmatic natural rock formation with a manmade passage cut through the center.
Shengshan Island, China
This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.
Urubamba, Peru
This is why we can't have nice things on the Incan Trail.
Botyre (Ayent), Switzerland
Medieval irrigation channels built into the sides of mountains provided Valais with water for hundreds of years.
Fackler, Alabama
This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.
West Sumatra, Indonesia
This Sumatran root bridge took almost 30 years to knit itself together.