Schleiden, Germany
Ordensburg Vogelsang
This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.
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Schleiden, Germany
This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.
Schleiden, Germany
An eerie ghost village hidden in the forests of the Eifel, frozen in a strange postwar limbo.
Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.
Punta Arenas, Chile
The geographical center of Chile is a port so depressing that it has driven men to suicide.
Namibia
Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.
Provincetown, Massachusetts
Provincetown's night owls flock to this 52-year-old pizza joint.
Colmar, France
This unusual piece of Renaissance art depicting the bodily horror of crucifixion and skin disease may have been inspired by fungus-induced hallucinations.
Strasbourg, France
Explore this medieval cathedral by trying to spot all the malevolent monsters hiding in its beautifully colored windows.
Strasbourg, France
There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.
Strasbourg, France
This fascinating museum in an old water tower holds the world's largest collection of Vodou artifacts from western and central Africa.
Dijon, France
For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.
United States Minor Outlying Islands
An abandoned guano-mining city in the South Pacific.
London, England
At almost 1,000 years old, this is the oldest known door in all of Britain.
Tokamachi, Japan
There's light and a dreamlike panorama at the end of this tunnel.
Barrow, Alaska
The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.
Adak, Alaska
America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.
Bouvet Island
This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.
Inaccessible Island
It might not be as impossible to reach as its name would imply, but just about.
Longwood, Saint Helena
Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.
Tristan da Cunha
The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.
Greenland
The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.
Yagodninsky District, Russia
Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.
Ayano-Maysky District, Russia
Five mile wide circular ring of rock in the Russian Far East is a curious geological oddity.
La Rochelle, France
A massive base for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.