Carlsbad, New Mexico
Lechuguilla Cave
A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.
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Carlsbad, New Mexico
A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.
Salzburg, Austria
Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.
Wustermark, Germany
The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.
Florence, Italy
A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.
Columbia, Maryland
A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.
Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
Budapest, Hungary
This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.
Washington, D.C.
This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.
Paris, France
A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.
Fredericksburg, Texas
An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.
Baltimore, Maryland
The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.
New York, New York
Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.
Cave City, Kentucky
Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Matavun, Slovenia
This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."
Charlottesville, Virginia
Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.
Rome, Italy
Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.
Venice, Italy
This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.
Washington, D.C.
A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.
Thurmond, West Virginia
Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.
Berlin, Germany
Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.