Chicago, Illinois
International Museum of Surgical Science
A monument to the art of slicing people open.
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Chicago, Illinois
A monument to the art of slicing people open.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
Supai, Arizona
This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.
Yachats, Oregon
On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.
Page, Arizona
Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.
Dolinka, Kazakhstan
A sober museum housed in the original administrative building of one of Stalin's largest gulags.
Averøy, Norway
A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.
Daniel Campos, Bolivia
A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.
Zurich, Switzerland
Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
The hottest place on the planet.
Gao, Mali
The most important and best preserved remnant of West Africa's powerful Songhai Empire.
Djenne, Mali
The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.
Los Angeles, California
Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.
Los Angeles, California
World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.