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Scafell Pike

Seascale, England

Scafell Pike

The highest peak in all of England is plagued by dangerously fickle climate shifts.

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

Toronto, Ontario

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

Gnome Road

Red Feather Lakes, Colorado

Gnome Road

A collection of fading fantasy tchotchkes lines this dirt road in the Colorado wilderness.

Mausoleum of Rudaki in Panjrud, Sughd, Tajikistan. June 27, 2016.

Pandzhrudak, Tajikistan

Tomb of Rudaki

Where the father of Persian poetry is laid to rest.

Hollie Tatnell's grave.

Hearne, Texas

Grave in the Road

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

The Thomas Hughes Library in Historic Rugby.

Rugby, Tennessee

Rugby Colony

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

The Elevated Acre

New York, New York

The Elevated Acre

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

Abandoned oil rigs.

Invergordon, Scotland

Oil Rig Graveyard

Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.

DAR Plaque at the site

Tuxedo Park, New York

Sterling Lake Iron Works

The remains of the furnace and iron works that produced the massive Hudson River Chain still stand in the woods of New York.

One of the entrances to the hangar.

Gnojnice, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mostar Aircraft Hangar

This abandoned airplane hanger is said to have once been a top secret launch facility.

The Red Stone

Leiden, Netherlands

Leiden Stones

A trio of red, white, and blue stones embedded in the streets of Leiden are markers of medieval territory and law.

Original headstone with various offerings

Lowell, Massachusetts

Jack Kerouac's Grave

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

The Crematory in Meissen

Meißen, Germany

Meissen Crematorium Tour

From morgue to urn, watch the whole process at this unusual educational attraction.

The horned Madonna detail

Milan, Italy

Horned Madonna of Portinari Chapel

The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.

"All the people that come and go..."

Liverpool, England

Penny Lane

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

The reconstructed Drake Oil Well demonstrates the first practical use of salt drilling techniques for the extraction of petroleum through an oil well

Titusville, Pennsylvania

Drake Well Museum

Where the oil industry began.

Central sculpture in front of wall bearing internment camp names

Washington, D.C.

Memorial to Japanese-American Patriotism in World War II

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.

Lindsay for Mayor Billboard
Permanently Closed

Brooklyn, New York

Lindsay for Mayor Billboard

This recently uncovered ad for Lindsay's run at Mayor in 1965 had been hiding for decades underneath a billboard.

A 1963 Pilurs-Smith DSA-1 Miniplane built by Tracy Pilurs, winner of the 1962 Women's National Aerobatic Championship.

Cleveland, Ohio

International Women's Air & Space Museum

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

The Leper Baobob

Liwonde, Malawi

The Leper Tree

A hollowed-out baobab that became the horrific final resting place of leprosy sufferers, with gruesome evidence to prove it.

Monkeys at Luhur Uluwatu Temple

Kuta Selatan, Indonesia

Luhur Uluwatu Temple

This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.

Roque de los Muchachos Observatory

La Palma, Spain

Roque de los Muchachos Observatory

This mountaintop observatory is home to one of the world's largest reflective telescopes.

Hot Creek Geological Site

Mono County, California

Hot Creek Geological Site

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

The pyramid at El Tepozteco.

Tepoztlán, Mexico

El Tepozteco

High atop a Mexican rainforest mountain, this ancient pyramid once drew pilgrims countries away.

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