Siuntio, Finland
Pickala Soviet Triumphal Arch
A rare remnant of Finland’s Soviet-occupied past.
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Siuntio, Finland
A rare remnant of Finland’s Soviet-occupied past.
Keno City, Yukon
A historic signpost to world cities on the top of a barren mining hill in the Yukon.
Matsue, Japan
The sacred slope said to mark the gateway to the underworld.
Sendai, Japan
A heart-shaped rock hollow amid lush scenery in Japan.
Opelika, Alabama
A city park that once housed live spider monkeys and today features a working miniature train.
Wairiki, Fiji
Stand astride the International Date Line in Fiji, with one foot in two different days.
Rochester Hills, Michigan
A historic cider mill still using time-tested techniques.
Denia, Spain
An underground passage originally constructed as an air-raid shelter during the Spanish Civil War.
Catonsville, Maryland
This museum honors an African-American renaissance man of the early 18th century.
Vienna, Austria
Vienna’s most overlooked celebrity is a Disney star.
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
A stone monument marks the location of the final battle of an armed uprising which had a significant impact on the creation of the US Constitution.
North Canaan, Connecticut
A small memorial dedicated to a man purportedly killed when a meteor the size of an SUV crashed into him.
Grand Forks, North Dakota
An obelisk commemorates historic floods that hit two towns along the Red River of the North.
Tintagel, England
Before construction of the famous Tintagel Castle, this site in Cornwall was likely a prosperous Dark Age trading port.
Kalsoy, Faroe Islands
This statue commemorates the tale of the fisherman who captured a Kópakonan by stealing her skin while she was transformed as a woman.
Brașov, Romania
A habitable museum, or a time machine into Romania’s Communist era?
Ankara, Turkey
A collection of over 700 chess sets in a beautiful historic building.
Makhanda, South Africa
A fossil collection of the only known Devonian high-latitude estuarine ecosystem.
Paris, France
A cocktail lounge decorated like an American dive bar, in honor of the legendary author Ernest Hemingway.
Theux, Belgium
Europe's longest Hornbeam tunnel.
Kinnared, Sweden
Deep in the Swedish forest hides a forgotten water-powered carousel.
Manchester, England
It’s a street without a name, but there is a sign.
Pune, India
Historic anchors for the animals that once carried India’s mail.
Belleville, Kansas
A real haunted house with an extensive history going back to 1893.