Topeka, Kansas
Equality House
A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.
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Topeka, Kansas
A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.
Namibia
The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.
Dongguan, China
One of the world's largest malls has been almost completely empty since its opening.
Paris, France
This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.
Santa Clara, Cuba
This imposing memorial contains the remains of Che Guevara — and 29 other guerrillas who died with him in Bolivia.
Ketura, Israel
This tree was extinct for a thousand years before sprouting again from a 2,000-year-old seed.
San Simeon, California
This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.
Villahermosa, Mexico
This singular broken monument, now housed in a museum, was the cause of a worldwide "Mayan Doomsday" phenomenon.
Bielefeld, Germany
According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.
Seneca Falls, New York
What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
A morbid piece of memorabilia from the most famous shipwreck in current history is just one of the many poignant artifacts in this Canadian museum's collection.
Antarctica
Considered the most remote point in the entire world.
Hulu Kuantan, Indonesia
A monster in the plant world, up to 10 feet tall and smelling of death.
Milot, Haiti
The royal seat of Henri Christophe, a formerly enslaved man who became Haiti's only king.
Afar Zone 1, Ethiopia
An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.
Ngorongoro, Tanzania
This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.
Fatehpur Sikri, India
An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.
Russia
Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.
St. Louis, Missouri
The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.
Yallabatharra, Australia
A micronation of epic proportions.
Chobe, Botswana
There is only one place in the world where the corners of four nations come together.
Alameda, California
A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.
Samarra, Iraq
9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.