Rapa Nui, Chile
Ana Kai Tangata (Cannibal Cave)
The ominously named cave is home to some remarkable ancient art.
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Rapa Nui, Chile
The ominously named cave is home to some remarkable ancient art.
Galway, Ireland
After a traumatic encounter with a six-foot eel, one Galway baker started making a daily loaf of sourdough in its shape.
Sebastian, Florida
A memorial to the United States's first wildlife refuge warden.
Washington, D.C.
A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.
Luxor, Egypt
These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.
London, England
The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.
Richmond, Virginia
This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.
Lares, Puerto Rico
The location of Puerto Rico's first water bottling plant, thanks to a collaboration between Mother Nature and technology.
Rome, Italy
Romans decided this 16th-century "talking statue" was so ugly, they named it after a primate.
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Flowers have mysteriously appeared on her effigy every day for the last 150 years.
San Francisco, California
This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.
Amherst, Massachusetts
The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.
Lecarrow, Ireland
Wander among the abandoned ruins of this once-powerful medieval town.
Barentsburg, Norway
This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.
Natchez, Mississippi
This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.
Natchez, Mississippi
Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.
Mysore, India
At this sweet shop, the descendants of a royal chef serve up the fudge-like dessert his ancestor invented for a king.
St Kilda, Australia
You'll find the little birds tucked within the rocks of this Australian beach.
Encarnación de Díaz, Mexico
An impressive if morbid collection of mummified remains from different eras of the region's history.
Bjurholm, Sweden
A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.
Kinver, England
The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.
São Miguel, Portugal
When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."
Flora, Mississippi
A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.