Pyongyang, North Korea
The USS Pueblo
Captured in 1968, the Cold War spy ship is the only U.S. Navy vessel being held by a foreign government.
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Pyongyang, North Korea
Captured in 1968, the Cold War spy ship is the only U.S. Navy vessel being held by a foreign government.
Cleveland, Ohio
Abandoned since the 1950s, the streetcar lane beneath the heavily trafficked bridge lays empty and unused.
Cleveland, Ohio
This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."
Maui County, Hawaii
This tiny Hawaiian island is slowly coming back to life after being bombed during naval training exercises.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Wales
This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.
Nunavut
The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.
Denver, Colorado
Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.
São Miguel, Portugal
When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.
Akron, Ohio
An elegant sandstone stairway built by the WPA still connects two neighborhoods in Akron.
L'Agulhas, South Africa
This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.
Iran
This ancient burial site is believed to be one of the first earthquake-protected structures in the world.
Cloquet, Minnesota
The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.
Antarctica
Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.
Iceland
A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.
Seattle, Washington
The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.
Kealakekua, Hawaii
A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.
Zoar, Ohio
Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.
New York, New York
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
New York, New York
The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.
Waxhaw, North Carolina
Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.
France / Spain
This tiny river island switches sovereignty every six months as part of a rare, centuries-old agreement.
Antarctica
Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.
Cleveland, Ohio
A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.