Montclair, New Jersey
Thomas Edison's Concrete Houses
Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Montclair, New Jersey
Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.
Meybod, Iran
Ancient structures used to make and preserve ice in the deserts of Persia.
Tionesta, Pennsylvania
For decades, it has disappeared and reappeared as water levels rise and fall.
Royalton, Vermont
An obelisk marks the farmhouse where the founder of Mormonism was born.
Olanta, South Carolina
This natural wonderland is a unique chance to explore a Carolina bay, a mysterious geological formation of unknown origin.
Muggia, Italy
These pools have been abandoned for over 20 years.
Palmanova, Italy
A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.
Ray, Ohio
A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.
Logan, Ohio
Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.
Los Angeles, California
The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.
Chicago, Illinois
Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.
Comunidad Challapampa, Bolivia
Mysterious Incan ruins on a tiny island in Lake Titicaca.
Papantla, Mexico
The singular ruins of a mysterious lost city.
Soriano nel Cimino, Italy
This ancient altar emerges from the thick forests to reveal the mysteries of Etruscan sacrificial rituals.
Odawara, Japan
Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.
Callanish, Scotland
The mysterious megaliths have enchanted and intrigued visitors for thousands of years.
Brussels, Belgium
A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.
Mexico City, Mexico
The ruins of an ancient temple to the Aztec wind god discovered in the middle of a metro station.
Washington, D.C.
Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.
Sweden
This fantastic cave remained unexplored until 1948 when three schoolboys discovered a hidden entrance.
Shlisselburg, Russia
An abandoned 14th-century castle and prison complex on a small island in the Neva River.
Caerleon, Wales
This Roman amphitheater is said to be King Arthur's legendary Round Table.
Beatty, Nevada
Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.