Longyearbyen, Norway
Longyearbyen
In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.
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Longyearbyen, Norway
In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.
Cedar Creek, Texas
The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.
Goldfield, Nevada
Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.
Washington, D.C.
An atomic bomb-proof strongbox protects the U.S. Constitution from terrorists and thieves.
Mont Saint-Michel, France
This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
New York, New York
Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Portland, Oregon
A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.
Dublin, Ireland
This supermarket offers shoppers a window into the past alongside their groceries.
Fallon, Nevada
In 1954, two enormous earthquakes occurred just minutes apart, resulting in prominent scarps that extend for miles along the range fronts.
Québec City, Québec
A reconstituted ancestral village of the Huron-Wendat Nation.
Fort Belvoir, Virginia
The well-preserved remnants of a bridge that once made up a WW1-era military railroad.
Piombino, Italy
An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.
Kolkata, India
This Jewish bakery, among the last in the region, sells legendary sweets from a century-old storefront.
Chicago, Illinois
A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.
Palos Verdes Estates, California
Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.
Los Angeles, California
A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.
Huntington Beach, California
This monster board rode a monster wave to break two world records.
Las Vegas, Nevada
James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.
Hollandale, Wisconsin
One Austrian's singular yard is now preserved as a folk art garden of concrete wonders.
Dodgeville, Wisconsin
One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.
Sumpter, Wisconsin
"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.