New York, New York
Rudolph de Harak Digital Clock
The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
New York, New York
The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.
Mounana, Gabon
The world's first and only natural nuclear reactor.
Baghdad, Iraq
A 2200 year old vessel may have been able to keep a charge.
Qatar
Some 20,000 dust-covered unwanted vehicles languish in the desert.
Chad
Camels and crocodiles share the black waters of this stunning Saharan oasis.
Hawick, Scotland
Built as a training camp, this site became a detainment center for prisoners of war and German civilians during World War I.
Gilsland, England
In the middle of a barren moorland, the remnants of a lost British Space Age stand like a 20th-century Stonehenge.
Stanhope, England
This sandstone tree trunk is a relic from a long-past era when England had a more tropical climate.
Peterborough, England
Once-buried markers show England’s lowest land point keeps getting lower.
Peterborough, England
A clumsy-looking flying locomotive rusts within sight of a busy rail station.
Everton, England
Set amid the remains of a secret WWII airfield, this barn was preserved as a memorial to Allied agents who parachuted into Europe.
Willen, England
The first peace pagoda to be constructed in the Western world sits next to a small English lake.
Manchester, England
Two of the most notable names in automobile history are commemorated at the place where they're said to have first met.
Manchester, England
When the city of Manchester built a new centralized heating network, they did it with style.
Manchester, England
Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.
Stockport, England
Nicknamed the 'Chestergate Hotel,' the underground tunnel had beds, lights, and even flushing toilets.
Stockport, England
Great Britain's only hat-making museum.
Manchester, England
This small record store was a favorite of Oasis's Noel and Liam Gallagher, who mentioned it in one of their early songs.
Hale, England
A rare World War II-era siren still survives in the southern suburbs of Manchester.
Leeds, England
The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.
Malton, England
A deserted medieval village where bodies were once mutilated to prevent them rising from the dead.
Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku, New Zealand
The most remote tree in the world is more than 170 miles from its nearest neighbor.
Antarctica
The bodies of some early polar pioneers are still buried beneath the harsh snows of the Antarctic.
Antarctica
The remains of a doomed Antarctic plane, buried beneath layers of ice and snow, await those willing to do a bit of digging.