Selçuk, Turkey
Brothel Advertisement at Ephesus
Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.
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Selçuk, Turkey
Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.
Prague, Czechia
A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.
Catarman, Philippines
A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.
Grass Valley, California
Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.
Rough and Ready, California
The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.
Dayton, Nevada
The smallest country in the world.
Coober Pedy, Australia
An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.
Monowi, Nebraska
America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.
Oyster Bay, New York
Some of the earliest burial grounds of New York State are to be found hidden away in this quaint town.
Atlanta, Georgia
Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.
Thiells, New York
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
Newberry Springs, California
The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.
Rookwood, Australia
The largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere.
Bronx, New York
The loneliest island in New York.
Vienna, Austria
The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.
New York, New York
This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.
Glendale, California
An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.
San Francisco, California
Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.
Los Angeles, California
A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.
Baarle-Hertog, Belgium
A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.
Julian, California
Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.
Beveren, Belgium
This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.
Sausalito, California
Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.