Seattle, Washington
Connections Museum
This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.
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Seattle, Washington
This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.
Riga, Latvia
Medical museum that houses most notably the taxidermied remains of Vladimir Demikhov's famous two-headed dog experiment.
Jemez Springs, New Mexico
A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.
Glasgow, Scotland
Hidden in a Scotland museum is a copse of extinct tree stumps.
Paris, France
Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.
Noasca, Italy
This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.
Kuraginsky District, Russia
Home of Vissarion, the "Jesus of Siberia."
Jelonki, Poland
Boats must transform into railroad cars to navigate this Polish canal.
Brooklyn, New York
Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.
Rhinelander, Wisconsin
One extremely determined man's homemade universe.
Aspen, Colorado
Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.
Auburn, Kentucky
The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.
Reno, Nevada
The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.
Kerry, Ireland
Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.
Sligo, Ireland
A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.
Kazan, Russia
This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.
Topeka, Kansas
These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.
Kerch, Ukraine
This ancient burial mound is accessed by an impressive Greek-built archway.
Bodo, Norway
According to the locals, the sands of this secluded Norway beach are infused with gemstone particles.
Leek, England
This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.
Marudi, Malaysia
These jagged limestone blades cut out through the canopy of the jungles of Borneo.
Zakinthos, Greece
Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.