Naples, Italy
Bourbon Tunnel
Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.
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Naples, Italy
Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.
Chiang Rai, Thailand
A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.
Haverhill, Massachusetts
It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.
Las Vegas, Nevada
James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.
Waterbury, Connecticut
A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.
Vienna, Austria
A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.
Ischia, Italy
Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.
Lucas, Kansas
A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.
Aptos, California
At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.
Lima, Peru
A market for witches is hidden within a train station.
La Paz, Bolivia
Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.
Boston, Massachusetts
This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Estella, Spain
A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.
Khlong Mai, Thailand
An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.
Beverly, Massachusetts
A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.
New Hope, Pennsylvania
This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.
Stockholm, Sweden
This Stockholm light tower can be controlled by anyone with a smartphone.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.
Madrid, Spain
This amazing abuela became a diehard metal fan late in life and an icon of Madrid's '80s rock scene.
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.
Needham, Massachusetts
An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.