Gildeskål, Norway
Uredd Rest Area (Ureddplassen)
Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.
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Gildeskål, Norway
Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.
New Bern, North Carolina
This multi-story wooden waterpark offers homemade thrills.
Passau, Germany
Shimmering sea-colored mosaics and Jesus statues cover this opulent building.
Savannah, Georgia
Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.
Denver, Colorado
A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.
San Francisco, California
A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.
San Francisco, California
These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.
Salzburg, Austria
This strange statue features a bust of the famous composer plopped atop a woman's body.
San Jose, California
It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.
Ngorongoro, Tanzania
These strange piles of magnetized volcanic ash travel across the desert about 50 feet per year.
Nazca, Peru
Nazca pilgrimage site covering 370 acres is a popular stop for archeologists and looters.
Nazca, Peru
A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.
Long Beach, California
The creator of the carousel's bingo-pinball hybrid survives in California's oldest gaming establishment.
Anaheim, California
A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.
Long Beach, California
The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.
London, England
A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.
Cerritos, California
A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.
North Pole, Alaska
An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.
Laos
A boat ride through utter darkness, lit only by headlamps, reveals an emerald green pool locals believe is sacred.
Iporanga, Brazil
At 705 feet high, Brazil's "House of Stone" is the largest cave mouth in the world.
Summerville, Georgia
Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.
Stazzema, Italy
A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.
Walker County, Georgia
The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.
Göttingen, Germany
Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.