Shaharah, Yemen
Shaharah
One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.
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Shaharah, Yemen
One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.
Pont-en-Royans, France
These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.
Leiden, Netherlands
The works of poetry's biggest names grace the walls of the city of Leiden, all carefully painted by hand.
Sorrento, Italy
An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.
Namibia
Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.
Breezewood, Pennsylvania
An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.
Martorell, Spain
A gravity-defying "devil's bridge" that has a surprising architectural feature for its stability.
Aksaray, Turkey
In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.
Saint-Georges-d'Oléron, France
Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.
Werfen, Austria
The largest ice cave in the world is thought to be the entrance to hell according to Austrian legend.
Kasol, India
Remote town home to Himachalis, Israelis, and tons of hashish.
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
A horse statue that receives constant makeovers from graffiti artists and locals.
Wallachia, Romania
The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.
Cynghordy, Wales
One family's environment-friendly hobbit-house in Wales.
Nueva Gerona, Cuba
A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.
Vilaplana, Spain
Now a pile of ruins and rubble, this was a lovely mountain town as recently as 1960.
Paris, France
Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.
Myanmar
Luxurious devotion and 500,000 images of Buddha in Myanmar.
Kandahar, Afghanistan
Rock-cut chamber at top of an outcroup, reached by a mountain stairway of forty steps.
Naalehu, Hawaii
A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.
Mountain View, Hawaii
A true treehouse near Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.
Kaneohe, Hawaii
A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.
Captain Cook, Hawaii
These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.
Hana, Hawaii
A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.