Tiberias, Israel
Zodiac Mosaic of Hammat Tiberias
The mosaic floor of a 4th-century synagogue features a pagan zodiac wheel alongside traditional images of a Torah ark and menorahs.
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Tiberias, Israel
The mosaic floor of a 4th-century synagogue features a pagan zodiac wheel alongside traditional images of a Torah ark and menorahs.
Zavikon Island, Ontario
The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.
Strasbourg, France
This 14th century wine cellar is home to the oldest barrel-stored wine in the world.
Hebron, Connecticut
The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.
Panguipulli, Chile
This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.
Kingston Springs, Tennessee
The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.
Memphis, Tennessee
This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.
Săpânța, Romania
A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.
Lake George, New York
A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.
Deep River, Connecticut
The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.
Los Angeles, California
This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.
Seydisfjordur, Iceland
An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.
San Jose, California
The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.
Istanbul, Turkey
A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.
Ísafjörður, Iceland
Discover the magic in the mundane in Iceland's Museum of Everyday Life.
Lexington, Virginia
The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.
Lexington, Virginia
The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.
Marion, Virginia
An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.
Bristol, Virginia
One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.
Sewanee, Tennessee
Mysterious library of an infamous financier and spiritual seeker.
Lynchburg, Tennessee
All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.
Knoxville, Tennessee
This stone memorial pays tribute to a massive shipwreck which was sadly overshadowed by the death of John Wilkes Booth.
Jefferson City, Tennessee
Over 200 people were buried here with only a small stone to mark their final resting place.