Belfast, Northern Ireland
'Alec the Goose'
The statue honors a beloved bird that once roamed St. George's Market.
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Belfast, Northern Ireland
The statue honors a beloved bird that once roamed St. George's Market.
Virolahti, Finland
Fortifications built for a Soviet invasion that never came now sit abandoned in a losing battle against nature.
Somerset, England
The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.
Serravalle, San Marino
The only Shinto shrine in Europe that has been officially sanctioned by Japan.
Bolivia
On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.
Fondi, Italy
This museum located in Fondi is also said to be the most haunted building in town.
Meknes, Morocco
Designed as a labyrinth, this subterranean prison was crafted without bars or doors.
Namibia
Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.
Chamoli, India
A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.
Ischia, Italy
Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."
Klaipėda, Lithuania
A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.
Milluni, Bolivia
The world’s highest ski resort was deserted after an 18,000-year-old glacier melted away.
Sydney, Australia
The statue honors an adventurous seafaring cat.
Zhangjiajie, China
The world’s tallest outdoor lift stretches along the stone pillars that inspired the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”
Naples, Italy
This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.
Avezzano, Italy
This Roman underground canal was the longest tunnel ever built until the late 19th-century.
Mexico City, Mexico
This one-window stand has been home to a giant vat of slowly simmering meats and an array of unique tacos for almost 50 years.
Rome, Italy
Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.
Balboa District, Panama
The rusting hulk of a hand-powered, nearly 160-year-old submarine abandoned in 1869 due to the ravages of decompression sickness.
Costa Rica
Disused penal colony features prisoner artwork, some sketched in human blood.
Costa Rica
This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.
Quepos, Costa Rica
The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.
Monteverde, Costa Rica
A secret climbing tree hides along the side of a Costa Rican road.