Fernandina Beach, Florida
Amelia Island Museum of History
Four thousand years of history come alive through interactive exhibits and storytelling traditions.
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Fernandina Beach, Florida
Four thousand years of history come alive through interactive exhibits and storytelling traditions.
Fernandina Beach, Florida
An illuminating look at Fernandina Beach’s industrial past at a one-time train depot.
Fernandina Beach, Florida
A 19th-century schoolhouse has been transformed into a boutique hotel, complete with a pool and mini golf.
Fernandina Beach, Florida
Embark on a swashbuckling adventure steeped in Amelia Island’s pirate past.
Lam Sin, Thailand
A memorial to over 200 “communist suspects” who were incinerated in red petroleum barrels in Lam Sin Thailand in the early 1970s.
Kleinmachnow, Germany
A witty art installation in an abandoned gas station that became obsolete due to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
London, England
Tucked away amongst Leadenhall Market’s cobbled passageways is a whimsical little (literally) attraction.
Dorgali, Italy
It is an ancient giant’s grave!
Karlovy Vary, Czechia
A red-brick former uranium-ore sorting facility, located within a communist-era forced-labour camp.
Amersfoort, Netherlands
An entire street built on the foundation of the first wall of Amersfoort. It has 61 national heritage sites in the street itself.
Victoria, Malta
More than fifty centuries-old religious shrines hide in the walls and above the doorways of Gozo’s capital, and most visitors walk straight past them.
Beek-Ubbergen, Netherlands
Open-air museum of eleven landscapes (ten Dutch ones plus a British one) in miniature.
Ciboure, France
A winemaker pioneering submarine fermentation.
Liège, Belgium
Tucked away in an unassuming cemetery lies the grave of Georges Nagelmackers, the founder of the Compagnie des wagons-lits (and thus, of the Orient Express).
Washington, D.C.
Behind a row of ordinary D.C. houses hides a labyrinth of interconnected art galleries filled with unusual treasures and outsider art.
Madrid, Spain
This protected 19th-century façade once housed Mármoles Molina, a company specializing in funerary monuments.
Willowbrook, Illinois
A memorial for the victims of a plane crash that, at the time, was the deadliest plane disaster in American history.
Havana, Cuba
It is an old prison, lighthouse, and castle once used to guard the port in Havana, Cuba
Laguna, New Mexico
A family-owned and operated cultural center, Native food stand, and store offering a taste of local Indigenous history.
Tokoname, Japan
The world's first ever Boeing 787 is now the centrepiece of a children's playground and museum.
Hollywood, Florida
A wonderfully awkward plastic statue of Hollywood's first mayor that no one can quite explain.
Kuji, Japan
You can fulfill your childhood dream of becoming a paleontologist by digging for your own amber fossils.
Aurora, Colorado
A tiny historic cemetery located in the parking lot of a shopping complex.
Chilliwack, British Columbia
The guest rooms in this hotel are a tiny castle, a ship built into a tower, and an underground burrow.