London, England
Brunel Museum Grand Entrance Hall
The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.
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Pitumarca, Peru
Rainbow Mountain
A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.
Washington, D.C.
Albert Einstein Bronze Statue
The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.
Solovetskiy, Russia
Bolshoi Zayatsky Island
No one knows why ancient labyrinths were built on this tiny northern island.
Phoenix, Arizona
Governor Hunt's Pyramid Tomb
The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.
Llanelli, Wales
The Great Welsh Amelia Earhart Controversy
Where, exactly, the great aviator completed her transatlantic flight has caused some trouble in Wales.
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
Grave of Vincent and Theo van Gogh
The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.
Rockville, Utah
Grafton Ghost Town
Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.
Duxbury, Massachusetts
Myles Standish Burial Ground
It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.
London, England
Tomb of the Unknown London Girl
The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.
New York, New York
Macy's Wooden Escalators
A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.
New York, New York
The Wendel House
The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.
Ireland
The Dry Stone Walls of the Aran Islands
Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.
Lexington, Mississippi
Grave of the Lady in Red
The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.
Utrecht, Netherlands
Sonnenborgh Observatory
A historic observatory now an astronomy museum beautifully situated at the moat of the Middle Age city centre.
Sydney, Australia
Sydney Bus Museum
Ninety years of Sydney buses under one roof.
Permanently Closed
Topanga, California
Canned Heat Suicide House
The mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.
Boa Vista, Cabo Verde
Wreckage of M/S Cabo Santa Maria
This ship carrying cargo and four church bells for the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida ran aground in 1968.
Milan, Italy
Royal Pavilion at Stazione Centrale
An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.
Pyongyang, North Korea
Juche Tower
A highly symbolic tower in honor of Supreme Leader Kim Il-sung's personal philosophy.
Skagway, Alaska
The Slide Cemetery
A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.
Wingdale, New York
Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center
An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.
London, England
Strawberry Hill
In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'
Landers, California
Giant Rock
A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.
