Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
Chemin de Fer Railway Museum
Rusting railcars and locomotive equipment fill this Ethiopian train graveyard.
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Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
Rusting railcars and locomotive equipment fill this Ethiopian train graveyard.
Djibouti
A salt lake dotted with steaming limestone chimneys.
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.
Afar Zone 1, Ethiopia
An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.
Tofino, British Columbia
The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.
Pirou, France
An abandoned beach resort in Normandy reclaimed by artists.
Sudan
All that remains of Jacques Cousteau's 1960s underwater "village."
Zinnowitz, Germany
An elevator into the Baltic Sea.
Leba, Poland
This open-air museum was originally a World War II testing ground for German missiles and rockets.
Peenemünde, Germany
The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.
Ehlanzeni, South Africa
Hidden in the hills is a mysterious stone structure, known only to a few.
New York, New York
This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.
Ortona, Italy
The relics of one of Jesus' 12 apostles are enshrined in this Italian Basilica.
London, England
The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Dargavs, Russia
This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.
Lee-on-the-Solent, England
A museum in south England celebrates the amphibious vehicles that cruise on a cushion of air.
Sala, Sweden
This luxury hotel suite is located deep in the bowels of an old mine.
Landrethun-le-Nord, France
Underneath a chalk hill in France lies what Hitler hoped would be the underground launching base for a devastating new weapon.
Berlin, Germany
A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.
Giessen, Germany
This peculiar museum offers hands-on interaction with seemingly intangible principles of mathematics.
Magdalena, New Mexico
Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.