Dublin, Ireland
Museum of Curiosities
A two-storey cabinet of wonders filled with the bizarre, the macabre, and the downright uncanny.
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Dublin, Ireland
A two-storey cabinet of wonders filled with the bizarre, the macabre, and the downright uncanny.
Drammen, Norway
A marvel of engineering, this road ascends a Norwegian hill through six spirals inside of it.
Schleiden, Germany
This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.
Schleiden, Germany
An eerie ghost village hidden in the forests of the Eifel, frozen in a strange postwar limbo.
Pitumarca, Peru
A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.
Los Angeles, California
A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.
Mansfield, England
The largest oak in England is said to have been the hideout of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.
Älvdalen S, Sweden
The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.
Løkken, Denmark
An abandoned lighthouse awaits its destiny: being buried under shifting sand.
Melilla, Spain
A five-square-mile slice of Spain on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.
Les Trois-Moutiers, France
A 2017 crowdfunding campaign saved this historic castle from being destroyed.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
Aurland, Norway
A thin pane of glass keeps visitors from sliding off this futuristic skywalk.
Campillo de Dueñas, Spain
This awesome Spanish castle is so fantastical it was actually used on Game of Thrones.
Los Albaricoques, Spain
This small Spanish village still pays homage to the Spaghetti Western films that were shot there in the 1960s.
Petra District, Jordan
An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.
Zhangjiajie, China
This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”
Yakushima, Japan
The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'
Province de Ouarzazate, Morocco
An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."
Cannon Beach, Oregon
A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.
Kerry, Ireland
Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.
Chamonix, France
Every year, a sparkling cave is sculpted in the icy heart of a glacier.
Milluni, Bolivia
The world’s highest ski resort was deserted after an 18,000-year-old glacier melted away.
Yueyang, China
At nearly 1,000 feet long, this astonishing glass suspension bridge is one of the longest in the world.