Moab, Utah
Hole N" the Rock
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
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Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Green River, Utah
Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.
Embudo, New Mexico
One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.
Chimayo, New Mexico
This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.
Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Bloomfield, New Mexico
The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.
Farmington, New Mexico
Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.
Valga, Estonia
For the last century, this international border within a small town has appeared and disappeared various times.
Tartu, Estonia
Once a year, local students "clean" this statue with a champagne shower.
Rakvere, Estonia
This behemoth bovine guards an Estonian town and is a memorial to the lost species.
Krimulda Parish, Latvia
This remote sandstone cliff has one of the richest collections of Livonian petroglyph marks.
Padua, Italy
One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.
Laadla, Estonia
A clerical error gave rise to this imaginary micronation in the southwestern corner of Estonia.
Irlavas pagasts, Latvia
A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.
Samovodene, Bulgaria
Outstanding, eerie frescoes and decorations fill this 19th-century monastery.
Šibenik, Croatia
Large, airy hallways hide within an impenetrable fortress that beckons urban explorers.
Trsteno, Croatia
The oldest arboretum on the Dalmatian coast doubles as the gardens of Kings Landing in "Game of Thrones."
Lasva, Estonia
This old and disused water tower has received a new life as an art gallery with a piano staircase.
Gdańsk, Poland
This 700-year-old structure is one of the most unique architectural and historic monuments in Gdańsk.
Istanbul, Turkey
Large miniature theme park with 100-plus models.