Reykjavik, Iceland
Hólavallagarður Cemetery
This verdant, tree-lined Reykjavik graveyard is both enchanting and eerie.
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Reykjavik, Iceland
This verdant, tree-lined Reykjavik graveyard is both enchanting and eerie.
Micronesia
Giant money stones of Yap.
North Adams, Massachusetts
This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.
Parnamirim, Brazil
You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.
Australia
This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.
Lord Howe Island, Australia
In a strange timezone anomaly, Daylight Saving Time here sets the clocks forward just 30 minutes.
Singapore
An independent bookstore and press with a large collection of local and English-language literature.
Singapore
This royal shrine and cemetery is hidden amidst modern public housing.
Singapore
Across this single-file rope bridge is what has been claimed to be the edge of continental Asia.
Walarano, Vanuatu
Nestled in the jungles of Vanuatu are the remains of what was once a cannibal oven.
Narsarsuaq, Greenland
An experimental forest at the foreground of arboreal science is also the canary in the coal mine for climate change.
Nuuk, Greenland
1% of Greenland's entire population used to live in this single building, which is now slated for demolition.
Diomede, Alaska
Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.
Russia
Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.
Russia
Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.
Turukhansky District, Russia
Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.
Solovetskiy, Russia
No one knows why ancient labyrinths were built on this tiny northern island.
ambon Kalai, Thailand
A tall karst islet popularized by 007.
Tristan da Cunha
The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.
Bermuda
Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."
Visby, Sweden
Known locally as the Jungfrutornet, this Medieval tower hides a dark legend.
Kneippen, Sweden
Visit the home of Sweden's beloved fictional character, Pippi Longstocking.
Rootsiküla, Estonia
This little gem in the Gulf of Riga has a very rich heritage and distinct culture.