Queens, New York
TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport
This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.
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Queens, New York
This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.
Mexico City, Mexico
Inside a busy metro station, an impressive mural depicts the prehispanic city of Tenochtitlán.
West Bay, Cayman Islands
Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.
Los Angeles, California
The last of its kind in the country.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Inside this shop, visitors are treated to a unique blend of natural history and art.
San Francisco, California
This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.
Culver City, California
A modern day curiosity cabinet.
Pasadena, California
A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.
Bommayapalayam, India
This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.
Jaipur, India
The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.
Deming, New Mexico
A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.
Deming, New Mexico
In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.
Leshan, China
This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.
Graniteville, Vermont
Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.
Portland, Maine
The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.
Freeport, Maine
This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.
Inarajan, Guam
The underground hideout of a Japanese soldier for whom World War II ended in 1972.