Kuala Penyu, Malaysia
Snake Island of Borneo
This tiny island in the South China Sea is crawling with venomous sea snakes.
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Kuala Penyu, Malaysia
This tiny island in the South China Sea is crawling with venomous sea snakes.
Cow Bay, Nova Scotia
This huge 12-foot concrete moose on the coast of Nova Scotia is the grandest of the sculptor's giant creatures.
Vanuatu
The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.
Toronto, Ontario
A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.
Höhe, Austria
This spire on an Austrian mountain is wrapped around a long spiral slide and has the world's tallest wooden observation deck.
Iceland
This plaque tells the story of an event that took place in an imagined parallel universe.
Verzy, France
Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.
San Francisco, California
A library and museum dedicated to typography.
West Berlin, New Jersey
Destructive children, start your engines.
New Harmony, Indiana
This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.
Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.
Cook Islands
A desert island with both a buried treasure and a famous castaway.
Silver City, New Mexico
These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.
London, England
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
Vienna, Austria
The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.
Chamoli, India
A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.
Nazca, Peru
Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.
London, England
In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'
Đồng Văn, Vietnam
This striking landscape in northern Vietnam contains both geological and archaeological wonders.
Utrecht, Netherlands
A historic observatory now an astronomy museum beautifully situated at the moat of the Middle Age city centre.
Los Angeles, California
This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.
London, England
The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.
Pitumarca, Peru
A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.
Carthage, Missouri
An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.