Ortucchio, Italy
Fucino Space Centre
The largest civilian satellite control center in the world is located in the middle of a drained lake.
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Ortucchio, Italy
The largest civilian satellite control center in the world is located in the middle of a drained lake.
Troy, New York
This stained glass window designed by Tiffany Studios is hidden behind the circulation desk of a public library.
Huzhou Shi, China
Home to around 40 different species, this forest was also the setting for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
Singapore
Singapore's Ang Mo Kio Town Garden West is a social hotspot for songbirds and their humans.
Jūrmala, Latvia
This seaside pine grove features an exclusive watchtower that presents amazing views.
Ward, New Zealand
This beach provides a glimpse of the ancient seafloor without getting wet.
Tambon Mueang Phan, Thailand
An amalgam of precariously balanced boulders, ancient petroglyphs, and Buddhist shrines.
Ichihara, Japan
The "largest bathroom stall in the world" offers a unique pit-stop experience.
Namibia
Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.
Antarctica
At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.
Gerlach, Nevada
A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.
Taipei, Taiwan
This densely-packed cluster of buildings was saved from the wrecking ball and turned into an art community.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.
Logan, Ohio
It took more than 20 years and a sharp eye for one man to assemble this quirky collection.
Singapore
A disused quarry turned lake in the middle of a residential district.
Washington, D.C.
The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.
Osaka, Japan
Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.
Koganei, Japan
Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.
Wendover, Utah
Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
For almost 100 years, this site of peace and spirituality has existed on the California coast.
Turkey
Flames have been burning within this mountain for more than 2,500 years.
Clinton, Tennessee
This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.
Inuyama, Japan
A kitsch shrine dedicated to the ogre-slaying folktale hero born from a peach.
Nikko, Japan
Is this cat asleep or just pretending?