Cape Town, South Africa
Boulders Beach Penguin Sanctuary
This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.
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Cape Town, South Africa
This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.
Nubia, Egypt
Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan
Avenue of trees planted by cosmonauts before their space departures.
Strand, Norway
This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.
Ghat, Libya
Landscape of bizarrely shaped desert mountains and innumerable rock carvings.
Rome, Italy
The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.
Rome, Italy
The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.
Rome, Italy
At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.
Syracuse, Italy
Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.
Guanajuato, Mexico
Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."
Toronto, Ontario
One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.
Martorell, Spain
A gravity-defying "devil's bridge" that has a surprising architectural feature for its stability.
Chiusdino, Italy
These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.
Ghent, Belgium
Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.
New York, New York
Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.
Sweden
Once the nail factory shut its doors, this Swedish factory town was abandoned, leaving behind a modern ghost town.
Waterbury, Vermont
The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.
Ixmiquilpan, Mexico
Bright, rebellious indigenous murals dating back to the Spanish Conquest inexplicably cover the walls of this Catholic church.
Pecos, New Mexico
Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.
Giethoorn, Netherlands
This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.
Santa Clarita, California
No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.
Italy
According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.
Harbin, China
An impactful museum ensures notorious war crimes disguised as "medical experimentation" won't soon be forgotten.
Paris, France
A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.