Kilmacolm, Scotland
'The Lost XVII'
A missing Roman legion was recreated in sculpture along a Scottish cycling route.
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Kilmacolm, Scotland
A missing Roman legion was recreated in sculpture along a Scottish cycling route.
Ketrzyn, Poland
This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.
Leśniewo, Poland
Built to transport German U-boats through the never-completed Masurian Canal, the locks near this Polish village are now home to a rope course.
Brooklyn, New York
On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.
Pāhoa, Hawaii
In 2018, Pohoiki Road was severed by lava flowing from the eruption of Kilauea.
Ichihara, Japan
The "largest bathroom stall in the world" offers a unique pit-stop experience.
Improvement District No. 24, Alberta
The half-mile long structure is so impressive, it even shows up on satellite images.
Istanbul, Turkey
Taking the subway here means doing so over a bridge located in the middle of an estuary.
New York, New York
Need to book a room at the Hotel Pennsylvania? Just dial up 6-5000.
Hazlehurst, Mississippi
A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.
Camdenton, Missouri
European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.
Beirut, Lebanon
Beirut's thinnest building was the result of feuding brothers.
Pompeii, Italy
The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.
Moapa, Nevada
A hidden slot canyon in the southern Nevada desert makes an unexpected oasis and scenic hike.
Alderson, West Virginia
This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.
Jaipur, India
More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.
San Francisco, California
Built in 1906, this unique building was the first Hindu temple in the United States.
Alexandria, Virginia
Long buried under the 20th-century landscape, this lift lock of the Alexandria Canal is the lone remnant of an ambitious early American transportation project.
Peninsula, Ohio
Beside a busy highway, a colony of Great Blue Herons raises hundreds of offspring each year.
Mount Vernon, Ohio
Constructed from the ruins of a former glass factory, this park incorporates the old with the new.
Ray, Ohio
A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.
Houston, Texas
A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.
Roswell, New Mexico
Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.
Turkey
At this ancient settlement at the foot of Mount Babadağ, honeycomb tombs are carved into a round cliff.