Invergordon, Scotland
Oil Rig Graveyard
Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.
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Invergordon, Scotland
Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Cambria, California
A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.
Cambria, California
Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.
Point Arena, California
The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.
Box, England
The designer of this railway tunnel added a birthday present for himself.
Bristol, England
One of the largest megalithic complexes in England, which local legend holds is a wedding party turned to stone by the Devil.
London, England
The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.
Venice, Italy
Venice's "Island of the Mad."
Venice, Italy
As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.
Birgu, Malta
This almost-forgotten underground dungeon housed several convicts over the years, including Caravaggio.
Paola, Malta
This subterranean necropolis holds three floors of antler-dug grave caves.
Iż-Żejtun, Malta
A hidden tunnel of bones in one of Malta's oldest churches.
Gansbaai, South Africa
An odd little fishing town that is inundated by tourists looking to be locked up in a cage and surrounded by great white sharks, because why not?
Puthukkudiyiruppu, Sri Lanka
Remains of military submarines built in secret jungle factories by the Tamil guerrillas' naval wing.
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Why is there a vintage Rolls Royce in this Buddhist temple?
Colombo, Sri Lanka
This Sri Lankan cemetery is the final resting place of sci-fi legend Sir Arthur C. Clarke.
Worms, Germany
The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.
Giessen, Germany
Final resting place of the humble physicist who discovered X-rays, and made the invisible visible.
Mühltal, Germany
The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.
Oppenheim, Germany
This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.
Lee-on-the-Solent, England
A museum in south England celebrates the amphibious vehicles that cruise on a cushion of air.
London, England
Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.
Borth, Wales
A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.