Santa Luzia, Portugal
Cemetery of Anchors
Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.
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Santa Luzia, Portugal
Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.
Kayaköy, Turkey
A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.
Christmas Island, Australia
The red crab exhibits one of the most spectacular migrations on earth, despite manmade obstacles.
Kemi, Finland
This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.
Naica, Mexico
A gargantuan crystal kingdom.
Bassenge, Belgium
A Belgian self-built tower inspired by the Bible and ancient civilizations.
San Francisco, California
A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.
Anchorage, Alaska
Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.
Iceland
The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.
Turner, Oregon
This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.
Prague, Czechia
Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Alliance, Nebraska
An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.
Bern, Switzerland
A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.
Hangzhou, China
China's very own Atlantis is an ornate dynastic city resting at the bottom of a lake.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
Los Angeles, California
The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.
Deshnok, India
Deep in the Thar desert, a temple crawling with thousands of holy rats.
Sorrento, Italy
An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.
Saint Austell, England
400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.
Toronto, Ontario
Lost subway station nestled beneath Toronto's busy commuter line.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Where beautiful signs live on forever.
Hallstatt, Austria
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.