Blieskastel, Germany
Gollenstein
After Nazi forces smashed this 4,000-year-old Neolithic standing stone, locals banded together to restore it.
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Blieskastel, Germany
After Nazi forces smashed this 4,000-year-old Neolithic standing stone, locals banded together to restore it.
Pentidattilo, Italy
A ghost town on the slopes of a hand-shaped rock is haunted by the story of a 17th-century murder.
Shayyr, Kazakhstan
Jurassic clays where the dinosaurs once roamed.
Gyeongju, South Korea
From mid-September to early November, dreamy fields of pink muhly grass spring up all over South Korea.
Nihommatsu, Japan
Local legend claims that this is the final resting place of an infamous cannibal hag.
Tokyo, Japan
A pair of rivaling shrines dedicated to Lady Oiwa, the most famous vengeful ghost in Japan.
Savonlinna, Finland
This island castle now hosts a world-famous opera festival.
Seattle, Washington
Meet me at the most confusing intersection in Seattle.
Rockport, Washington
The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.
Hope, British Columbia
A hiking area billed as a possible home to Bigfoot.
Hope, British Columbia
Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.
Sunshine Valley, British Columbia
The morning of January 9, 1965, over 46 million cubic meters of earth, rock, and snow broke free, obliterating a section of the highway below.
Whitewater, Wisconsin
A glacial erratic in the shape of a foot rests in the woods of a restored oak savanna prairie.
Počitelj, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This fortified town dating back to the 1400s is often described as an open-air museum and is a protected National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A hidden and beautiful waterfall in middle of one of the biggest urban forests of the world.
Fujisawa, Japan
A major Japanese execution ground site from the Middle Ages.
Duboka, Croatia
Construction of this bridge was once described as an "act of violence" against a neighboring country.
Oxford, Massachusetts
Solitary stone structures and a tale of tragedy are all that remains of a historic settlement built by French Protestant refugees.
Morioka, Japan
Legend says that a swarm of centipedes and snakes once crawled out of the tomb of this cursed princess.
Omaha, Nebraska
A life-size bronze statue of Ettore Boiardi, the man behind the can.
Durrës, Albania
A fascinating little project dedicated to preserving the charming historic doors of Durrës.
Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok's take on the High Line is a park on a traffic bridge above the iconic Chao Phraya River.
Amay, Belgium
Since its accidental discovery in 1977, this sarcophagus has been described as "the greatest masterpiece of Merovingian sculpture north of the Alps."
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Dioramas retell the obscure local legends and ghost stories of Sharjah, from a living palm tree to a headless camel.