Peoria, Illinois
Springdale Cemetery
This graveyard is home to the so-called "Witch's Circle."
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Peoria, Illinois
This graveyard is home to the so-called "Witch's Circle."
San Sebastián, Spain
The forest hides a cemetery where members of the British Legion rest in peace.
Ahlat, Turkey
Hundreds of medieval Islamic gravestones decorate the mountainous landscape in the largest cemetery in Turkey.
Gadoni, Italy
Greenery covers the face of a gently-dripping waterfall deep in the mountains of central Sardinia.
Tubmanburg, Liberia
An abandoned mine pit is now a beautiful, colorful attraction.
Tisbury, England
Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.
Corvallis, Oregon
This 85-foot-long table is made from a single slice of an old-growth Douglas Fir.
Hamburg, Germany
Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.
Washington, D.C.
Once a sewer culvert, this road tunnel now offers cyclists and pedestrians a subterranean stroll under the C&O Canal.
Washington, D.C.
The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.
Koytendag, Turkmenistan
A cave covered with bizarre stalactites of cloth.
Venice, Italy
100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.
Cocullo, Italy
Host to the annual Festival of the Snakes.
Oulu, Finland
The grandest stage for the world's foremost masters of invisible instruments.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.
Binche, Belgium
The tiny Belgian town's ancient version of Mardi Gras involves eerie wax masks, sticks for warding off evil, and ostrich plume hats.
Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste, France
Take black faced bears with giant clubs, white faced barbers wielding axes, hunters armed with shotguns, and mix in a lot of drinking.
El Campello, Spain
In this coastal town, the time-honored tradition of reenacting the struggle between the Christians and Moors includes the arrival of the Moorish fleet.
Tokyo, Japan
A legend of a mysterious phantom train haunts this grave.
South Lyon, Michigan
This quaint stretch of road is the final resting place for hundreds of America's four-legged veterans.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A magician and his beloved, pampered canine were buried together, within days of each other, due to a tragic twist of fate.
Traverse City, Michigan
The world champion cow is buried within a historic old asylum.
Huntsville, Alabama
Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.
Hillsborough Township, New Jersey
A billionaire heiress' menagerie of animals were lovingly laid to rest on the grounds of her former estate.