Lekki, Nigeria
Lekki Conservation Center
This Nigerian nature reserve is home to the longest canopy walkway in Africa.
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Lekki, Nigeria
This Nigerian nature reserve is home to the longest canopy walkway in Africa.
Mae Klong, Thailand
Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.
Genga, Italy
This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.
Washington, D.C.
The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.
Paisley, Scotland
A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.
Paris, France
A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.
Paris, France
High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.
Paris, France
The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.
Paris, France
A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.
Paris, France
One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.
Paris, France
A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.
Paris, France
Got apples?
Paris, France
The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.
Paris, France
Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Paris, France
Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.
Paris, France
Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.
Paris, France
One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.
Paris, France
An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.
Paris, France
This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.
Paris, France
An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.
Baia, Italy
A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.
Consonno, Italy
This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.