Gainesville, Florida
Historic Haile Homestead
Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.
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Gainesville, Florida
Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.
Key West, Florida
Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.
Gibsonton, Florida
The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.
Captiva, Florida
This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.
Ochopee, Florida
In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.
West Baden Springs, Indiana
A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.
Maras, Peru
This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.
Hallstatt, Austria
The world's oldest known salt mine.
Khewra, Pakistan
The world's second largest salt mine, said to have been discovered by Alexander the Great's horse.
Wendover, Utah
Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.
Osoyoos, British Columbia
A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.
Kenya
A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.
Aigues-Mortes, France
This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.
Cardona, Spain
Mine shafts and hard pastries await visitors at this massive mountain of salt.
Old Saybrook, Connecticut
House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."
Amityville, New York
The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.
Uonuma, Japan
Running through lush forests and across the Tadami River, this train line offers breathtaking views of rural Japan.
Minamiuonuma, Japan
Take a lick of the legendary homemade miso paste that protected this Buddhist temple’s scrolls from a fire centuries ago.
Chino, Japan
High in the trees or suspended between cables, these surreal structures are the works of a unique Japanese architect.
Bonnieux, France
From carts to cars, this leftover Roman bridge in France has managed to survive for centuries.
Petra District, Jordan
An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.
Peebles, Ohio
The largest earthwork effigy in the world.
Ushuaia, Argentina
This plaza at the end of the world teems with monumental tributes to a problematic history, and laser discs.
Uozu-shi, Japan
Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.