Stockholm, Sweden
Olof Palme Memorial Plaque
A golden plaque marks the site of the mysterious unsolved assassination of the former Swedish prime minister.
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Stockholm, Sweden
A golden plaque marks the site of the mysterious unsolved assassination of the former Swedish prime minister.
Aptos, California
At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.
London, England
A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.
Arkutino, Bulgaria
An unfinished complex built for children from around the world sits abandoned on the Black Sea coastline.
Cabin John, Maryland
The bridge's highly-contested plaque (once again) honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Allentown, Pennsylvania
The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.
Melrose, Scotland
The heart of a Scottish legend had a centuries-long journey before reaching its final resting place.
Austin, Nevada
This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.
Rouen, France
His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.
Pawleys Island, South Carolina
Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.
Canberra, Australia
The gigantic preserved heart of a champion racehorse.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.
Ross, North Dakota
The oldest still-existing mosque in the United States sits in a remote prairie in North Dakota.
Newtown, Connecticut
This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.
Alpine, New Jersey
Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.
Washington, D.C.
Once the supplier for noteworthy projects like the National Cathedral, this old brickworks now lies abandoned.
Saint Andrews, Scotland
Every St. Andrews student knows to avoid this inscription for fear of a martyr's curse.
Washington, D.C.
You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.
La Rochelle, France
A massive base for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.
Tokyo, Japan
Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.
Washington, D.C.
There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.
Manitoba
The world's largest and most outstanding marl lake regularly changes color.
Warm Springs, Virginia
Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.
Los Angeles, California
This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.