Chamchamal, Iraq
Chamchamal Fire Well
A boiling wellspring flowing with natural gas burns in a continual blaze.
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Chamchamal, Iraq
A boiling wellspring flowing with natural gas burns in a continual blaze.
New Castle, Colorado
A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.
Turkey
Flames have been burning within this mountain for more than 2,500 years.
Gao, Mali
The most important and best preserved remnant of West Africa's powerful Songhai Empire.
Sorrento, Italy
An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.
Örencik, Turkey
This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.
Picacho, Arizona
Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.
Madrid, Spain
This postmodern apartment block was designed to be a vertical neighborhood.
Los Angeles, California
A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.
Stockholm, Sweden
Enormous ants wielding giant pine needles guard a Stockholm real estate company's office.
Pacifica, California
The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.
Pacifica, California
The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.
Siyazan, Azerbaijan
Swirling layers of white and red rock earned these mountains their festive nickname.
South San Francisco, California
A bronze tribute to a legendary Californian, the self-proclaimed "Emperor of the United States."
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
Legend says Dungeons and Dragons players can get their dice blessed at the creator of the game's memorial.
Tokyo, Japan
For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.
Tokyo, Japan
This tiny stone in a children's park is what remains of an ancient, once-worshipped object.
Fetlar, Scotland
On a remote island, legend has it that a fiddler and his wife were turned to stone.
Dundee, Scotland
A pair of mosaics marks the spot where the last accused witch of Dundee was put to death.
Washington, D.C.
This unassuming passageway played a key role in one of the most important events in U.S. history.
Montevideo, Uruguay
This historic stadium was built to host the first-ever FIFA World Cup.
Bishop Auckland, England
This Georgian Gothic building was created to shelter and feed deer.
Brno, Czechia
This strange statue depicts a young boy's body with an adult Mozart's head and a single wing.
Washington, D.C.
This statue of one of baseball’s greatest pitchers looks like something out of a sci-fi horror movie.