Delta, Alabama
Cheaha Mountain
The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.
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Delta, Alabama
The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.
Tampa, Florida
A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.
Monticello, Florida
The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.
Tallahassee, Florida
One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.
Homestead, Florida
A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.
Tampa, Florida
"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.
Gainesville, Florida
Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.
Captiva, Florida
This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.
Big Pine Key, Florida
For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.
Coquitlam, British Columbia
Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.
Volterra, Italy
This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.
Medfield, Massachusetts
Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.
Ruthin, Wales
This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.
Edinburgh, Scotland
360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.
Bristol, England
The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.
Raleigh, North Carolina
This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.
San Francisco, California
A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.
Rome, Italy
This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.
Paris, France
In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.
Melrose, Scotland
The heart of a Scottish legend had a centuries-long journey before reaching its final resting place.
Valence, France
When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.
Saint-Denis, France
The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.
Lake Wales, Florida
A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.
Prosser, Washington
The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.