Playa Blanca, Spain
Museo Atlántico
A completely underwater art museum sends a stark message about humans' impact on the environment.
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Playa Blanca, Spain
A completely underwater art museum sends a stark message about humans' impact on the environment.
London, England
A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.
Woodstock, Maine
A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.
Larache, Morocco
A mythical garden that once grew the golden apples of wisdom is said to have existed in this ancient Moroccan city.
Tétouan, Morocco
At this faithfully preserved medina off the Moroccan tourist circuit you can walk through six centuries of history in one day.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Turner, Oregon
This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.
Zurich, Switzerland
One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.
Pelham, New Hampshire
Expertly restored pinball machines as far as the eye can see.
Franconia, New Hampshire
A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.
Bronx, New York
The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.
Corofin, Ireland
A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.
Norristown, Pennsylvania
Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.
Pottstown, Pennsylvania
A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.
Córdoba, Spain
Spain's unique Mosque-Cathedral has been a place of worship for both Muslims and Christians throughout its history.
Varberg, Sweden
Hundreds of mossy stones engraved with bits of philosophy, literature and random musings.
Washington, D.C.
A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.
United States / Canada
The only land territory disputed between the U.S. and Canada.
Austin, Nevada
This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.
Corsicana, Texas
A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."
Dubuque, Iowa
This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.
Decatur, Georgia
Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.
Atchison, Kansas
The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.