Kong, Côte d'Ivoire
The Grand Mud Mosque of Kong
Perhaps the biggest draw to this mosque is its remote location and lack of tourists.
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Kong, Côte d'Ivoire
Perhaps the biggest draw to this mosque is its remote location and lack of tourists.
Richmond, Virginia
A fake 1930s-euro-style hotel with an indoor mini golf course.
Richmond, Virginia
In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.
Richmond, Virginia
A church now sits over the site of one of the worst urban disasters of early 19th-century America.
Partridge, Kentucky
You can climb to the summit of Black Mountain, as long as you sign the waiver.
Nashville, Tennessee
This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.
Linden, Tennessee
A house built specifically to shelter the dead.
Alatskivi, Estonia
A wealthy aristocratic family built this Disney-worthy, fairy-tale castle.
Ewing, Virginia
Erosion has transformed this sandstone boulder into a massive dune-filled cavern.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.
Lewes, Delaware
The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.
Swift Run, Virginia
On the side of a Virginia highway, a collection of monuments commemorates an 18th-century trek through the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Green Bank, West Virginia
This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.
Green Bank, West Virginia
The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.
Moundsville, West Virginia
The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.
Salem, West Virginia
This abandoned train tunnel has been the subject of countless ghost stories for years.
Philippi, West Virginia
Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.
Beckley, West Virginia
A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.
Washington, West Virginia
One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.
Riverton, West Virginia
Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.
Clarksburg, Maryland
A well-worn trail through thick woods in northern Montgomery County leads to an old schoolhouse.
Benalmádena, Spain
A New York–based physician returned home to Spain to build his own elaborate monument to Christopher Columbus.