HoyvÃk, Faroe Islands
Eysturoyartunnilin (Eysturoy Tunnel)
Located more than 600 feet beneath sea level, this tunnel boasts the world's first undersea roundabout.
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HoyvÃk, Faroe Islands
Located more than 600 feet beneath sea level, this tunnel boasts the world's first undersea roundabout.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.
Natchez, Mississippi
Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.
Monon, Indiana
Train cars and railroad artifacts abound at this restaurant devoted to railway history.
Rheinsberg, Germany
This decommissioned nuclear power plant offers tours of its Communist-era control room and reactor hall.
Lake City, Colorado
The site of the gruesome massacre—and maybe cannibalism—of five men, a tragedy that made Alferd Packer infamous.
Antarctica
Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.
Valenciennes, France
This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.
Buffalo, New York
One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.
New Castle, Pennsylvania
This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.
Southport, North Carolina
This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.
Barcelona, Spain
18th century anatomical amphitheater of the Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona.
Barcelona, Spain
The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.
Barcelona, Spain
This former Baroque palace on the historic Calle Montcada is a rare architectural gem and was once the meeting place of an aristocratic scholarly society.
Cedar Creek, Texas
The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.
Bolivia
On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.
Mafra, Portugal
At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.
London, England
The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.
Yarnell, Arizona
The stone circle honors the 19 firemen who perished during the Yarnell Hill Fire.
Cloquet, Minnesota
The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.
Buffalo, New York
This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.
Manitowoc, Wisconsin
A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.