Castrillo de Murcia, Spain
The Baby Jumping Festival
During an annual Catholic feast in this tiny Spanish village, men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies to cleanse them of sin.
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Castrillo de Murcia, Spain
During an annual Catholic feast in this tiny Spanish village, men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies to cleanse them of sin.
New York, New York
A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.
Lehi, Utah
Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.
Hakone, Japan
This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.
East Granby, Connecticut
A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.
Newport, Rhode Island
Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.
Culpeper, Virginia
A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.
Jaipur, India
The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.
King George Island, Antarctica
One of only two civilian settlements in the desolate lands of chilly Antarctica.
Marshall Islands
An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.
Nicaragua
The youngest volcano in Central America.
Brackettville, Texas
Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.
Australia
An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.
Powell River, British Columbia
One of the final concrete ships built before World War II is now a crumbling breakwater.
Yonaguni, Japan
The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?
N'Guigmi, Niger
The world's most remote memorial to the victims of the UTA Flight 772 disaster.
Hilversum, Netherlands
The world's longest wildlife overpass provides Hilversum's critters with a safe alternative to trying their luck on the roadway.
Stonington, Connecticut
How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?
Uppsala, Sweden
A nightly tradition fills the streets of Flogsta with a collective scream.
Y, France
This small commune with an even smaller name appears to have an unlikely amount of dead ancestors.
Clayhole, Kentucky
Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.
Datong, China
A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.
New Mexico
One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.
Dublin, Ireland
A devastating booze inferno poured through the streets, claiming several victims who drank it.