Dublin, Ireland
St. Michan's Mummies
An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.
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Dublin, Ireland
An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.
Dublin, Ireland
This is the largest cemetery in Ireland and the first cemetery museum in the world.
Port Eynon, Wales
The seaside ruins of an ancient salt production facility.
Llangennith, Wales
A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.
Tambon Khaem Son, Thailand
Modern design and unusual architecture make this mountaintop temple no ordinary Buddhist retreat.
Pha Sing, Thailand
Riding on a pair of architectural dragons, this Thailand temple holds murals full of lurid imagery.
Yassıhüyük, Turkey
The oldest known standing wooden building in the world is a chamber inside a burial mound.
Natzwiller, France
Today this former Nazi concentration camp stands as a poignant memorial to the victims of fascism, and a warning from history.
Ottrott, France
An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.
Mezairaa, United Arab Emirates
Over the dunes of the Empty Quarter, the mysterious music of the desert.
Belogradchik, Bulgaria
Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.
Lohmen, Germany
Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.
Yemen
The most alien-looking place on Earth.
Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany
Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.
Ballycastle, Northern Ireland
The lake that fills and empties itself at random.
Alxa, China
The tallest stationary dunes on Earth also happen to sing.
Costa Rica
These mysterious ancient stone spheres were created by a civilization lost to time and are now mostly lawn ornaments.
Mauritania
A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.
Garni, Armenia
A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.
Wieliczka, Poland
An underground city of salt.
Larne, Northern Ireland
A Victorian marvel of engineering is now a 21st-century tourist attraction.
Ballintoy, Northern Ireland
This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.
Ballintoy, Northern Ireland
Built in 1547, these ruins lie on a rocky promontory in Ballintoy jutting into the wild ocean waters below.
Ballymoney, Northern Ireland
The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.