Chittorgarh, India
Chittorgarh Fort
A former bastion of Rajput chivalry, this massive hill fort is the site of legend and tragedy.
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Chittorgarh, India
A former bastion of Rajput chivalry, this massive hill fort is the site of legend and tragedy.
Saryazd, Iran
This ancient fortress in Iran was once the oldest and largest treasury in the world.
Bristol, England
There's a labyrinth of manmade tunnels stretching for over an acre beneath Bristol.
Bristol, England
England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.
Bristol, England
The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.
Baku, Azerbaijan
Mysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fire.
Qaradagh, Azerbaijan
Complete town of 5,000 living out at sea on the world's first offshore oil platform.
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
The maze-like transportation hub contains abandoned areas, derelict stores, and a resident bat colony.
Rehovot, Israel
Hidden beneath a washing machine in a fake kibbutz, this secret bullet factory has been preserved as a museum.
Ramla, Israel
This 1939 grave of a British soldier now receives legions of unlikely visitors.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.
Stockholm, Sweden
The Swedish flag over this small naval fort signals that the nation is at peace.
Jamestown, Rhode Island
Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as a graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.
Key Largo, Florida
An underwater statue of Christ blesses the coral reefs off Key Largo.
Štulac, Serbia
Serbia's master of striking memorials erected a forgotten, hidden gem in the hills outside a tiny village.
Čačak, Serbia
This symbol of Yugoslav liberation decorated with 620 carved heads of mythical creatures is now a forlorn relic of another time.
Bucharest, Romania
This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.
Excelsior, Minnesota
This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.
Bloomfield, New Mexico
The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.
Caledonia, Missouri
This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.
Goslar, Germany
This strange sculpture is an enigmatic icon of this medieval German town.
Seattle, Washington
An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.
Iceland
A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.
Beverley, England
Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit or something else altogether?