Atlanta, Georgia
'Adalanta Desert'
Beside some power panels, a plaque celebrates the history of an alternate world.
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Atlanta, Georgia
Beside some power panels, a plaque celebrates the history of an alternate world.
Atlanta, Georgia
The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.
Casa Grande, Arizona
An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.
Flossenbürg, Germany
A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.
College Station, Texas
Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.
Rome, Italy
An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.
Schwyz, Switzerland
The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.
Linköping, Sweden
From under the bed of one of the co-founders, this server helped launch the notorious file-sharing website.
Corsicana, Texas
A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."
London, England
The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.
Västerås, Sweden
A floating underwater hotel, created by a Swedish artist.
Ashwell, England
Historical etchings such as “Miserable, wild, distracted 1350" and “The Archdeacon is an ass.”
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.
Dubuque, Iowa
The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.
Jefferson City, Tennessee
Over 200 people were buried here with only a small stone to mark their final resting place.
Prague, Czechia
An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.
Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar
This underwater cave in Madagascar is home to what is thought to be the country's largest fossil graveyard.
Key Biscayne, Florida
An underwater city for the dead.
Onsted, Michigan
The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.
Lewes, Delaware
The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.
Havre de Grace, Maryland
Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.
Kansas City, Kansas
This sacred space and gathering spot for the Wyandot Nation has been the surrounded by controversy and confusion.
Plains, Georgia
This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.
Priozerskiy rayon, Russia
A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.