Black Hawk, Colorado
Knights of Pythias Cemetery
The burial grounds of a secret society includes fences topped with fake Tesla balls.
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Black Hawk, Colorado
The burial grounds of a secret society includes fences topped with fake Tesla balls.
Winter Park, Colorado
Paleoamericans built these ancient walls high in the Colorado Rockies as part of an extensive hunting system.
Grafton, Vermont
Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.
Sakha Republic, Russia
This remote lake in Siberia supposedly contains a fearsome sea monster.
Alton, Illinois
A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.
Tokyo, Japan
Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.
Epena, Republic of the Congo
This picturesque round lake is said to be home to the legendary MokÚlé-mbÚmbé.
Fouke, Arkansas
The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.
Ararat, Australia
Plastic pups and their colorful homes greet travelers on this otherwise ordinary Australian street.
Salina, Utah
Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.
Brattleboro, Vermont
Play everything you see at a museum dedicated to a town's historic organ industry.
Riga, Latvia
A preserved oak tree about 3,500 years old found in Riga, Latvia.
Riga, Latvia
A stone marker and sculpture in the city of Riga stake a claim for the very first community Christmas tree.
Liverpool, England
The red letters in the literary pavement leading to the library form a mysterious code.
Mexico City, Mexico
A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.
Riga, Latvia
Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.
Hove, England
This craggy boulder is fabled to be either a druidic relic or Satan's stumbling block.
Hove, England
This large torch on the Hove coastline helped Sir Francis Drake defend England from the Spanish fleet.
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.
Saulces-Monclin, France
The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.
White Lake, New York
These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.
Milford, Pennsylvania
One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.
Skagway, Alaska
The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.
Holy Island of Lindisfarne, England
These upturned herring boats make nifty storage sheds for fishing goods.