Svalbard, Norway
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.
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Svalbard, Norway
This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.
London, England
A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.
Atlanta, Georgia
The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.
London, England
A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix man has two yards full of vintage signs and antiques.
Lisbon, Portugal
Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.
Lisbon, Portugal
Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.
Raleigh, North Carolina
This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.
Sea Ranch, California
This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.
Amarilla Golf, Spain
One of the world's only places where tourists can make a trip in a submarine.
West Perth, Australia
The Nostalgia Box is a celebration of video games and the people that made them happen. The museum contains more than 100 consoles, representing the evolution—and sometimes revolution—that occurred from the 1970s through to modern times.
Warsaw, Poland
The world’s narrowest house makes for an awkward, four-foot-wide living space.
Blegny, Belgium
Descend into the tunnels to experience the life of a coal miner.
Sweden
Although rarely used, there is still a hidden room for the royal family at the Stockholm central station.
Oxford, England
This hidden 13th-century tavern room has a few Shakespearean connections.
Rochester, New York
A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.
Tbilisi, Georgia
The secret room where early Bolsheviks cranked out propaganda fliers on a smuggled printing press.
Blois, France
Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.
Gili Meno, Indonesia
A crazy maze of a hostel, where every trap door and secret entrance brings you to a new wacky, wonderful room.
Taxco, Mexico
This "cursed house" features secret rooms, hidden vaults, and dark escape tunnels.
Denver, Colorado
Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.
Prague, Czechia
The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.
Memphis, Tennessee
Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?