Amiens, France
Jules Verne's Tomb
Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.
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Amiens, France
Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.
Arlington, Virginia
This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.
Dunino, Scotland
A site of pagan worship which still attracts people looking for fairies.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.
Glasgow, Scotland
This collection of historic puppets honors centuries of the craft.
Glasgow, Scotland
Memorial to the Titanic engineers that died working to hold back the sea.
Glasgow, Scotland
The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.
Wheeling, West Virginia
This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.
Isle of Bute, Scotland
A fernery hidden by neglect is uncovered, and an ancient specimen along with it.
Lendalfoot, Scotland
Legend says this cave housed a 16th-century cannibal and his family of 48.
Cardross, Scotland
One of Scotland's most important modern structures, it just made the '100 Most Endangered Sites' list.
Tighnabruaich, Scotland
Built during the Scottish boom in the oil industry, the village was never inhabited.
Rothesay, Scotland
A bay of elaborate, historic toilets are held in high esteem at this Scottish dock.
Montenegro
A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.
Dubrovnik, Croatia
This Croatian island is for sale but no one is buying due to the dozens of accused Nazi sympathizers who were massacred there after WWII.
Split, Croatia
A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.
Isle of Staffa, Scotland
This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.
Isle of Eigg, Scotland
This cramped crevasse saw the entire population of its island suffocated inside its depths.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.
Mungasdale, Scotland
Fifty years of contamination in Scotland's waters.
Birnam, Scotland
Macbeth's infamous "Great Birnam Wood."
Polldubh, Scotland
The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.
Blois, France
Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.
Groom Lake, Nevada
In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.