Demre, Turkey
Myra Necropolis
A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Demre, Turkey
A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Where unreadable addresses are read, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Belvedere Tiburon, California
Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.
Estero, Florida
Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.
Copenhagen, Denmark
An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.
Goldendale, Washington
A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.
New Harmony, Indiana
This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.
Llano, California
The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.
Aveiro, Brazil
Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.
Ithaca, New York
The library of every book lover's dreams.
Passau, Germany
When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.
Skulte, Latvia
A vast and unlikely aviation museum kept alive for over 50 years due to one man's tenacity.
Copenhagen, Denmark
A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.
Wilmington, North Carolina
Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.
Lisse, Netherlands
Unsurprisingly, Holland is home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world.
London, England
It is against the law to obstruct the view from the top of this English burial mound.
Tehran, Iran
This circular Iranian jail was once a political prison run by the country's secret police.
Kelowna, British Columbia
Unlike many reclaimed, abandoned mines, this Canadian cave system is still just a dangerous maze.
New York, New York
The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.
Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.
Kenosha, Wisconsin
The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.
Beijing, China
This Chinese museum proves that it's a watermelon world, we're all just living in it.
New York, New York
An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.