Brusio, Switzerland
Brusio Spiral Viaduct
This work of engineering is imbued with elegance and ingeniousness.
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Brusio, Switzerland
This work of engineering is imbued with elegance and ingeniousness.
Maldonado, Uruguay
Because sometimes the most efficient route from A to B isn't a straight line.
London, England
This life-size monument honors the legacy of a famous literary feline.
Duluth, Minnesota
The watery grave of an impractical idea.
Glasgow, Scotland
This small memorial honors a ferocious feline and local hero.
Ridgedale, Missouri
If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.
Tallinn, Estonia
During the Soviet era, the spire of this longstanding church was used as a radio transmission tower.
Scott, Arkansas
People of the Plum Bayou culture built these enormous mounds over 1,000 years ago.
Garretson, South Dakota
These cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.
London, England
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
Lancaster, South Carolina
A nearly century-old amusement park is quietly decaying in a riverside forest in South Carolina.
Nienhagen, Germany
Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.
Barcelona, Spain
A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.
Field, British Columbia
In 1909, the steepest and most difficult piece of track on the Canadian Pacific Railway was replaced with a series of spiralling tunnels cut into the mountains.
Jackson, New Hampshire
Near the summit of Mount Washington, a stone monument remembers a life lost to one of the mountain's infamous storms.
Peru, Indiana
A set of tall pillars and alcove-like rooms that are significant to the Miami people of Indiana.
Dawson City, Yukon
A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.
Eden, Utah
This massive metal sculpture in the shape of a folded paper airplane overlooks a Utah mountain.
Terrace Bay, Ontario
This small archipelago in northern Lake Superior was formed by a massive meteorite impact 450 million years ago.
Dandenong South, Australia
A roadside hotel that you can’t stop at.
Trakai, Lithuania
Over time, this castle grew to encompass the entire island.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Little Dunmow, England
It's believed Matilda Fitzwalter's life was the basis for the famed literary figure.
Goldfield, Nevada
Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.