Raigad, India
Murud Janjira fort
A nearly unconquerable island-fort in the Indian Ocean.
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Raigad, India
A nearly unconquerable island-fort in the Indian Ocean.
Mumbai, India
A Zoroastrian funerary tower where excarnation rituals are carried out is threatened by the area's dwindling vulture population.
Gharapuri, India
An extraordinary "City of Caves" carved from solid stone.
Mumbai, India
World's most expensive home.
New Delhi, India
Made by a man on a worldwide sanitation crusade.
New Delhi, India
A blooming house of worship for the masses.
Weeki Wachee, Florida
Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.
Groom Lake, Nevada
In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.
Alghero, Italy
Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.
Chicago, Illinois
A monument to the art of slicing people open.
Key Biscayne, Florida
An underwater city for the dead.
London, England
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
Komiža, Croatia
An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.
Iceland
This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.
Hitachinaka, Japan
Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.
San Francisco, California
Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.
Mexico City, Mexico
An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.
Tokyo, Japan
Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
Paris, France
One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.