Nashville, Tennessee
Concrete Parthenon
This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.
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Nashville, Tennessee
This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.
Vieques, Puerto Rico
The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.
Florence, Italy
The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.
Delos, Greece
Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.
Mikonos, Greece
Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.
Malmö, Sweden
This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.
Copenhagen, Denmark
The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.
Holmegaard, Denmark
The greatest amusement park in the world is wall-to-wall farting dogs, puking rats, and cows with exposed breasts for the whole family.
Glen Rose, Texas
Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.
Austin, Texas
Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
New York, New York
A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.
New York, New York
There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...
New York, New York
This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.
New York, New York
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
Los Angeles, California
An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.
Rome, Italy
This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.
Rome, Italy
A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.
San Francisco, California
This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
London, England
Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.
London, England
In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.