Mexico City, Mexico
Palacio Postal
Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.
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Mexico City, Mexico
Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.
Bordeaux, France
The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.
Wicklow, Ireland
This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.
Zarcero, Costa Rica
This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.
La Malbaie, Québec
This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.
Myanmar
This unique temple complex remains off the typical tourist trail.
Isle of Staffa, Scotland
This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.
St. Petersburg, Florida
From printing money to live music, this Beaux-Arts style building has had many identities over the last century.
Tokyo, Japan
If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.
Giethoorn, Netherlands
This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.
Haverhill, Massachusetts
It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.
Pepeekeo, Hawaii
These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.
Crawfordsville, Indiana
The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.
Paris, France
This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.
Greensboro, North Carolina
This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.
Parksville, New York
This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Where beautiful signs live on forever.
Marazion, England
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
Independence, Missouri
A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.
Bangor, Maine
The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.
Chester, England
Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.
Walbrzych, Poland
A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.
Danvers, Massachusetts
The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.