California
Farallon Islands
Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.
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California
Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.
North Charleston, South Carolina
This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.
Kingussie, Scotland
These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.
Alnwick, England
This giant wooden treehouse within a sprawling garden has its own eatery.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."
Paris, France
135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.
Pompeii, Italy
Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.
London, England
This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.
Drumheller, Alberta
Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian Badlands.
Ehlanzeni, South Africa
Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.
Kayenta, Arizona
Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.
Grand Canyon Village, Arizona
A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.
Santa Barbara, California
Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.
Rockville, Maryland
The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.
Reykjanes, Iceland
Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.
Iceland
Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.
Charmouth, England
Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.
Gulfport, Mississippi
Built following the War of 1812, this fort has withstood hurricanes for centuries.
Bodiam, England
A beautiful ruin of a 14th-century Plantagenet castle built by a medieval mercenary.
Stockholm, Sweden
An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.
Newcomb, New York
An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.
Rawlins, Wyoming
This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.