Magelang, Indonesia
Gereja Ayam
This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.
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Magelang, Indonesia
This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.
Catarman, Philippines
A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.
Carrollton, Mississippi
Tucked away on a hilltop in the backwoods of Mississippi lies the remains of a blues legend.
Clarksdale, Mississippi
Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.
Abiquiu, New Mexico
Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.
Quezon, Philippines
This volcano in the Philippines is believed to have miraculous healing powers.
New York, New York
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
Grindavík, Iceland
Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
Beatty, Nevada
Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.
Marikina, Philippines
Iron Butterfly's personal collection of footwear.
Miri, Malaysia
One of the largest caverns in the world has a maw large enough to stack cathedrals in.
Sandakan, Malaysia
In this Borneo cave, it's not the thousands of bats you need to worry about, it's the blankets of roaches.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."
Musanze, Rwanda
Burial site of the world's most widely known researcher on the endangered mountain gorilla.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
England
A historic house left in "dramatic still life."
London, England
Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.