Matamata, New Zealand
Hobbiton
This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.
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Matamata, New Zealand
This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.
Beirut, Lebanon
Beirut's thinnest building was the result of feuding brothers.
Theth, Albania
Once a safe haven for locals engaged in blood feuds, this 400-year-old fortified tower is now a museum showing what life was like for those lying in wait within its walls.
Batumi, Georgia
Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.
Bixter, Scotland
Across the islands, baked goods, sauces, and much more are for sale 24/7.
Nashville, Tennessee
House a green chile pork Crunchwrap swaddled in hot, fresh tortillas.
Subotica, Serbia
Housed in a 1912 architectural masterpiece, this outlet of the Golden Arches is a real beauty.
Inyo County, California
This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.
Prosser, Washington
The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.
Hume, California
The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.
Húsavík, Iceland
A real-life homage to the Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrell's fictional Eurovision musical duo.
Mölndal, Sweden
Once the center of power for the region's various factories.
Urbana, Illinois
An actor's tribute to a former mentor.
Edgard, Louisiana
The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.
Eugene, Oregon
This square in downtown Eugene is dedicated to the novelist and countercultural figure Ken Kesey.
Portland, Oregon
A mile-long audio-guided walking tour preserves an iconic era of Portland soul music.
Antelope, Oregon
Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.
Prineville, Oregon
This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.
Mitchell, Oregon
Make it an offering.
Pendleton, Oregon
A statue of the owner stands outside of this museum, once the most popular brothel in town.
Joseph, Oregon
The steepest tramway in North America provides stunning views of the out-of-the-way Wallowa Mountains in northeastern Oregon.
Culver, Oregon
Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.
John Day, Oregon
This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.
La Pine, Oregon
Atop an active stratovolcano, two lakes separated by a narrow strip of land.