Queens, New York
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.
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Queens, New York
The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.
New York, New York
One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.
San Diego, California
San Diego's most historic and haunted home.
Oslo, Norway
Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.
New York, New York
Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.
Inyo County, California
"Only the devil could play golf here."
Çanakkale, Turkey
This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
San Francisco, California
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.
Lookout Mountain, Georgia
A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.
Washington, D.C.
Home to items never before seen by the public.
London, England
One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.
London, England
An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.
New York, New York
Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.
Greece
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
Roslin, Scotland
A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.
Dublin, Ireland
The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.
Mellieħa, Malta
An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.
New York, New York
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.
Amesbury, England
Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world
Plitvička Jezera, Croatia
A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.