Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
Chemin de Fer Railway Museum
Rusting railcars and locomotive equipment fill this Ethiopian train graveyard.
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Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
Rusting railcars and locomotive equipment fill this Ethiopian train graveyard.
Hargeisa, Somalia
Dine on roast goat inside a scrapped 1960s Soviet airplane.
Yemen
The most alien-looking place on Earth.
Helsinki, Finland
The last surviving submarine from a strange chapter of Finnish history.
Roche Caiman, Seychelles
A schooner, nicknamed "The Unsinkable," with a long history of survival in the Indian Ocean.
Gao, Mali
The most important and best preserved remnant of West Africa's powerful Songhai Empire.
Tandjouare, Togo
Hidden dwellings in the cliffsides of North Togo used by local Moba tribes to evade 18th-century slave traders.
Meriden, England
The obelisk honors the cyclist troops who were killed during World War I.
Welford-on-Avon, England
One of the tallest maypoles remaining in England in one of its smaller villages.
The Ridgeway, England
A unique flight of canal locks that owe their form to 19th-century cost-saving measures.
Warwickshire, England
The longest canal aqueduct in England was built without a plan to get water past the moving boats.
Peterborough, England
This World War II airfield is the last place the bandleader performed before he disappeared.
Wothorpe, England
The ruins of a 17th-century lodge on a grand estate are being slowly restored to their former glory.
Zurich, Switzerland
Though it may look like a businessman's lost luggage, this case suspended under a highway bridge is actually a contemporary art installation.
Gainford, England
This hidden natural fountain issues forth a steady supply of supposedly healing water that tastes like rotten eggs.
Bedale, England
The only surviving leech house in the United Kingdom was a home for bloodsucking worms until the 1900s.
Patras, Greece
Overlooked archeological site close to the city of Patras.
Redcar, England
A World War I relic found in the middle of a modern residential area.
Athens, Greece
Savor sheep milk yogurt at the last of Athens' dairy bars.
Athens, Greece
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
Machynlleth, Wales
Led Zeppelin wrote some of their most iconic songs at this little 18th-century Welsh cottage.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This mundane post marks the old location of the city's main postal hub.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This historic timepiece was a popular meeting place for romantic rendezvous in the 1960s.