Oxford, England
Oxford Museum of Natural History
Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.
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Oxford, England
Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.
Beijing, China
Beijing's expansive subterranean hiding spot now crumbles away as a tourist destination.
Qesm Hurghada, Egypt
A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.
Chipley, Florida
A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.
Sorrento, Italy
An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
Kalkar, Germany
An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.
Corsham, England
Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, and an underground lake.
Brooklyn, New York
First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.
Turkmenistan
A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.
Malindi, Kenya
Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.
Peru
Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.
Yucca Valley, California
On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.
Hinatuan, Philippines
A magically clear, blue river that seems to spring from nowhere.
Breezewood, Pennsylvania
An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.
Vienna, Austria
The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.
Vernal, Utah
Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.
Seattle, Washington
A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.
Rangalifinolhu, Maldives
An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.
Fort Bragg, California
A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.
Talayuelas, Spain
A fiery-red region of scooped out land still largely untouched by civilization, tourists or otherwise.
Rodellar, Spain
An arresting arch punched straight through a mountain provides one of the most scenic spots, and challenging climbs, on the planet.
Qesm Sharm Ash Sheikh, Egypt
Brightly painted boulders scattered throughout the Sinai Desert.
Beppu, Japan
Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.