Seascale, England
Scafell Pike
The highest peak in all of England is plagued by dangerously fickle climate shifts.
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Seascale, England
The highest peak in all of England is plagued by dangerously fickle climate shifts.
Toronto, Ontario
One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.
Red Feather Lakes, Colorado
A collection of fading fantasy tchotchkes lines this dirt road in the Colorado wilderness.
Pandzhrudak, Tajikistan
Where the father of Persian poetry is laid to rest.
Hearne, Texas
This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.
Rugby, Tennessee
A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.
New York, New York
Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.
Invergordon, Scotland
Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.
Tuxedo Park, New York
The remains of the furnace and iron works that produced the massive Hudson River Chain still stand in the woods of New York.
Gnojnice, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This abandoned airplane hanger is said to have once been a top secret launch facility.
Leiden, Netherlands
A trio of red, white, and blue stones embedded in the streets of Leiden are markers of medieval territory and law.
Lowell, Massachusetts
According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.
Meißen, Germany
From morgue to urn, watch the whole process at this unusual educational attraction.
Milan, Italy
The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.
Liverpool, England
The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.
Titusville, Pennsylvania
Where the oil industry began.
Washington, D.C.
An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.
Brooklyn, New York
This recently uncovered ad for Lindsay's run at Mayor in 1965 had been hiding for decades underneath a billboard.
Cleveland, Ohio
A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.
Liwonde, Malawi
A hollowed-out baobab that became the horrific final resting place of leprosy sufferers, with gruesome evidence to prove it.
Kuta Selatan, Indonesia
This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.
La Palma, Spain
This mountaintop observatory is home to one of the world's largest reflective telescopes.
Mono County, California
This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.
Tepoztlán, Mexico
High atop a Mexican rainforest mountain, this ancient pyramid once drew pilgrims countries away.