Jersey
La Hougue Bie
A passage grave used in neolithic rituals.
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Jersey
A passage grave used in neolithic rituals.
Royal Leamington Spa, England
Preserved baths in a Victorian-era spa town frequented by the most famous people of its day.
New York, New York
This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.
Gouville-sur-Mer, France
Rows of multicolored bathing huts paint the sand dunes with pops of color.
Canmore, Alberta
A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.
Xuzhou, China
These tiny statues form a terracotta army from China's Han dynasty.
Trinidad and Tobago
This giant Cold War satellite dish has become a symbol of Trinidad's need for sovereignty.
New Jersey, Trinidad and Tobago
This peculiar lake of pitch is so thick and viscous that one can walk on its surface.
Minbu, Myanmar
These muddy eruptions are less deadly than actual volcanoes but also more holy.
Guyana
The world's widest single drop waterfall, and the two men who legend says went over its edge in a boat.
Gran Sabana, Venezuela
This "floating island" plateau sits 7,671 feet above the forest floor.
Trinidad and Tobago
The site of a devastating modern-day mud volcano eruption that buried parts of a village.
Georgetown, Guyana
The end appears to be nigh for the world's fourth-longest floating bridge.
Chesterfield, England
The whimsical twist of this spire was either caused by the Devil, an unexpected virgin, or lead.
Chesterfield, England
This enormous spiral sculpture looks strangely out of place on the edge of a housing development.
Ravenglass, England
These Roman ruins in England’s Lake District are 2,000 years old, but look pretty good for their age.
Seascale, England
The highest peak in all of England is plagued by dangerously fickle climate shifts.
Wiesenthau, Germany
An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.
Holmrook, England
One of the highest Roman forts in Britain is set amid dramatic scenery on a notoriously difficult road.
Hilversum, Netherlands
A monument hidden in the woods built in 1938 as a getaway for a Dutch museum curator.
Amersfoort, Netherlands
The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.
Woudenberg, Netherlands
A grassy pyramid named after a French battle.
Amersfoort, Netherlands
This gigantic monument hidden in the woods was built to thank the Dutch for sheltering Belgian refugees during World War I.
Tamajón, Spain
Whimsical sculptures and caves chiseled by nature over the millennia.