Iceland
Drangurinn Rock
Icelandic folklore says this giant boulder was ripped from the mountains and placed at its current location, where it became home to elves.
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Iceland
Icelandic folklore says this giant boulder was ripped from the mountains and placed at its current location, where it became home to elves.
Fair Haven, Vermont
Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.
San Diego, California
The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.
Leipzig, Germany
This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.
Washington, D.C.
This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.
Berlin, Germany
Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.
Princetown, Australia
Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."
Deming, New Mexico
In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.
Edinburgh, Scotland
These steps offer a breathtaking view of one of Europe's most besieged fortresses.
Kerry, Ireland
Just another ancient, mysterious Irish stone circle.
Cumberland, Maryland
This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.
Copenhagen, Denmark
A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.
Carnac, France
Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.
Moelfre, Wales
These haunting ruins belong to an ancient village that once had one hell of a view.
Earlimart, California
A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.
Washington, D.C.
Senators used to relax in the nearly forgotten marble tubs now hidden in the U.S. Capitol Building's basement.
London, England
The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.
London, England
A tiny replica of the iconic London landmark hides on the side of the steel structure.
Flåm, Norway
A Viking-style brewpub named for a Norse sea giant, in the heart of fjord country.
London, England
An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.
San Francisco, California
Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.
White Pine County, Nevada
A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.
Lisbon, Portugal
Portugal's National Pantheon has a history of curses, collapses and financial problems.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
This Canadian island is a veritable garden of decay with countless abandoned structures dotting the landscape.