Foresta, Italy
Ciampate del Diavolo (Devil's Footprints)
A trail of footprints discovered after a landslide was left not by the Devil, as originally believed, but by an early human ancestor.
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Foresta, Italy
A trail of footprints discovered after a landslide was left not by the Devil, as originally believed, but by an early human ancestor.
Chinle, Arizona
Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.
Florence, Italy
The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.
Talala, Oklahoma
A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.
DeLand, Florida
A spirited shopping experience.
San Francisco, California
This museum in San Francisco's Chinatown is one of the oldest and largest archives of Chinese American history and culture.
Brazil
Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.
Volendam, Netherlands
The portrait of a man from Japan who sent weekly letters to a Dutch hotel he never visited.
Hume, California
The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.
Ironwood, Michigan
The largest ski jump in the Western Hemisphere hasn't hosted skiers in decades.
Visakhapatnam, India
These hilltop ruins of a forgotten Buddhist monastery flourished in Antiquity from trade with the Roman Empire.
Louisville, Kentucky
Locals place their offerings on this nightmarish gnarled tree so the witches won't summon another storm.
Southend-on-Sea, England
A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.
Subotica, Serbia
Housed in a 1912 architectural masterpiece, this outlet of the Golden Arches is a real beauty.
Moab, Utah
Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.
Húsavík, Iceland
A real-life homage to the Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrell's fictional Eurovision musical duo.
Pompeii, Italy
The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.
Somalia
The world's largest bioluminescent area was undiscovered by science until 2005.
Waitomo, New Zealand
Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.
Namerikawa, Japan
Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.
Raymond Island, Australia
Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.
Three Rivers, California
These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.
Bestari Jaya, Malaysia
Malaysian fireflies create a dazzling display as thousands light up in unison.
Falmouth, Jamaica
Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.