Melbourne, Australia
Bin Chicken Island
This island at Coburg Lake Reserve is home to a sizable, very visible colony of Australian white ibis.
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Melbourne, Australia
This island at Coburg Lake Reserve is home to a sizable, very visible colony of Australian white ibis.
Washington, D.C.
Daredevil repair workers can worm their way out the access hatch, loop ropes over the apex and rappel down the monument.
Willow Springs, Illinois
The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.
Zavalla, Texas
The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.
Soriano nel Cimino, Italy
Ancient, mysterious stone altars are hidden among wild woods in central Italy.
Oakland, New Jersey
The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.
Brownville, Maine
The remains of a large iron mill that once stood in the remote woods of northern Maine.
Bay Village, Ohio
The overgrown remains of an old rail bridge rise above the valley like ancient Greek ruins.
Argentina
Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.
North Adams, Massachusetts
The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.
Moka, Japan
Looking for the train station? Try the building shaped like a train.
Singapore
Frozen in Norway, vended in Singapore.
Seattle, Washington
Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.
Stockholm, Sweden
"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."
Mitaka, Japan
A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.
Lancaster, California
Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.
Kerry, Ireland
A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.
Columbia, South Carolina
The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.
Pueblo, Colorado
A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.
Aberdeen, Scotland
A dozen cast iron leopards stand guard along the length of Aberdeen's Union Bridge.
Nampa, Idaho
A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.
Rockaway Beach, Oregon
Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.
London, England
The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.
Kawazu, Japan
An ingenious solution to a tricky engineering problem, this spiraling bridge takes drivers for a dizzying spin.