Key West, Florida
U.S. Route 1 Mile 0 Sign
The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.
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Key West, Florida
The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Key West, Florida
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
Chokoloskee, Florida
A time capsule of Floridian history fights to survive on the banks of Chokoloskee Bay.
Ochopee, Florida
The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.
Seligman, Arizona
A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.
San Antonio, Texas
These boots are made for selfies.
San Antonio, Texas
Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.
San Antonio, Texas
Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.
Penrith, England
Legends say this red sandstone monolith and the dozens of smaller boulders that surround it were once a coven of witches—before a Scottish wizard turned them all to stone.
Bamburgh, England
This museum honors the young maritime hero who became an unexpected Victorian-era celebrity.
Grange-over-Sands, England
Abandoned for over 20 years, this Art Deco seaside swimming pool is a magnificent waste.
Barrow-in-Furness, England
What was once England's second-richest abbey is now a haunting ruin.
Chester, England
Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.
Chester, England
A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.
Ripponden, England
The house in the middle of the motorway.
Ilkley, England
This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.
Harrogate, England
Where Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926.
England
Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".
Knaresborough, England
A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.
Hull, England
The phone booths in this English town have distinctly milky hues.
Hull, England
What looks like missing grout is actually an old pub's peephole.
Darlington, England
A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.
Barnard Castle, England
A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.