Hartford, Connecticut
The Mark Twain House & Museum
The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.
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Hartford, Connecticut
The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.
Kathmandu, Nepal
Former host to the World Elephant Polo Championships.
Budapest, Hungary
Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.
New York, New York
A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.
Abiquiu, New Mexico
Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.
Glasgow, Scotland
The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.
Alice Town, Bahamas
One man's love of sea life and art has turned his home into a temple of outsider island art.
Paris, France
This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.
Sarasota, Florida
This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.
Montezuma, New Mexico
A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.
Bratton, England
A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.
Bishopville, South Carolina
A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.
Dover, England
One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.
Point Arena, California
The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.
Belchite, Spain
A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”
Blackpool, England
This sculpture is an instrument played by the swell of the seas.
Singapore
From prostitutes to soldiers to business men, the dead in this graveyard are a microcosm of Singapore's history with Japan.
Singapore
A Singapore shrine to an unnamed German girl who has become a local deity.
Singapore
A historical convent known for taking in bad luck babies left on its doorstep is now an upscale shopping center.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.
Calipatria, California
Erroneously called the world's tallest flagpole, this landmark is devoted to "good neighborliness."
Salt Lake City, Utah
A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.
Savannah, Georgia
One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.