Byron, California
Byron Hot Springs Hotel
A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.
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Byron, California
A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.
New Zealand
The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Japan
The world's longest tunnel with an undersea section.
Luxor, Egypt
These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.
Montreal, Québec
The vaulted ceiling is home to a scurry of “squirrelgoyles.”
Dixon, California
This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.
Chicago, Illinois
A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.
Progreso, Mexico
It would take you approximately an hour and a half to walk to the end of Mexico's largest pier.
Vilnius, Lithuania
An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This obscure walkway links Edinburgh’s Old Town with one of the city's prime vantage points.
Koshu, Japan
A monk-run winery inside a Buddhist temple celebrates Japan's crown grape varietal.
Älvsbyn V, Sweden
The concrete skeletons of an abandoned Swedish town hide among the trees.
Jenner, California
The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.
Mexico City, Mexico
The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.
Los Angeles, California
This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.
Göttingen, Germany
It commemorates one of the world's earliest telegraphs.
Castel di Tora, Italy
A semi-abandoned village destroyed by U.S. bombings during World War II dominates the valley of Turano.
Flagstaff, Arizona
A mass grave for victims of an airline disaster that led to much-needed safety improvements for commercial flights.
Zagreb, Croatia
This 135-year-old weather station studied the effects of the climate on human health.
Cushendun, Northern Ireland
A memorial to a goat culled during a foot and mouth disease outbreak guards a series of fantastical caves.
Westmoreland, Tennessee
This tiny 19th-century tunnel was built so a man could move his cows from one field to another.
Richmond, Virginia
This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.