Garenin, Scotland
Gearrannan Blackhouse Village
Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.
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Garenin, Scotland
Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.
Aurland, Norway
Longest road tunnel in the world features an air treatment plant and the illusion of daylight.
Bar Harbor, Maine
These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.
Ávila, Spain
These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.
Bury Saint Edmunds, England
The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.
Golspie, Scotland
A castle in the Scottish Highlands has been continuously inhabited since the 1300s.
Idlewild, Michigan
This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."
Richfield, Utah
One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.
York, England
This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.
Newark, England
The undercroft is a spectacular example of medieval Cistercian architecture.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.
Sainte-Mère-Église, France
An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.
Barrow-in-Furness, England
What was once England's second-richest abbey is now a haunting ruin.
Sperlonga, Italy
The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.
Valjevo, Serbia
A tribute to a man who defied the Nazis until his last breath.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.
Sankt Vith, Belgium
Burbling away in refrigerators are 105 sourdough starters from around the world.
Palmerston North, New Zealand
A New Zealand rubbish dump named after British comedian John Cleese.
Wasserauen, Switzerland
This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.
London, England
Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.
Daly City, California
Two pillars set 10 paces apart commemorate the "last notable American duel."
Cork, Ireland
A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine.
Lostwithiel, England
The ruins of an 11th-century Norman castle with a rare, perfectly circular shape.
New York, New York
This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.