Beijing, China
Great Wall of China Slide
Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?
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Beijing, China
Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?
Yeadon, Pennsylvania
America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.
San Francisco, California
A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.
Nördlingen, Germany
A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Travel through the hidden underbelly of the city in colorful tunnels filled with art and history exhibits.
Yangon, Myanmar
The ruins of this prominent glass factory yield hidden treasures buried among the jungle floor.
Linthicum Heights, Maryland
Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.
Fort Meade, Maryland
A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.
Dublin, Ireland
The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.
Shipka, Bulgaria
The remarkably well-preserved final resting place of a powerful ancient Thracian king.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.
Fethiye, Turkey
These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Sperlonga, Italy
The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.
Cameron, West Virginia
The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.
Pinhal Novo, Portugal
This architectural beauty is the home to a personal collection of more than 600 examples of mechanical musical instruments.
New Haven, Connecticut
An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.
Ithaca, New York
This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Denver, Colorado
A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.
Reykjavik, Iceland
An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.
Nassau, Bahamas
Impressive sink holes fill this untouched old-growth forest in the Bahamas.
Nafplio, Greece
This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.
Phoenix, Arizona
The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear.