Greenland
The Oldest Chunk of Rock in the World
The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.
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Greenland
The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.
Raufarhöfn, Iceland
This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.
Heimaey, Iceland
A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.
Iceland
The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.
Inishmaan, Ireland
Certain traditions prevail on the least-visited island of the Aran Islands.
Amarillo, Texas
A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.
Bern, Switzerland
A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.
Sankt Goarshausen, Germany
A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.
Wierschem, Germany
This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.
Banos, Ecuador
A swing to dangle you off the very edge.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.
London, England
This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.
Yakutat, Alaska
Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.
Palmer, Alaska
An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.
Spokane, Washington
Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.
Anchorage, Alaska
Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.
Whittier, Alaska
Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.
London, England
The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.
Uribante, Venezuela
A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.
Tarrenz, Austria
Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer.
Hemet, California
This mysterious petroglyph evokes the ancient swastika symbol but was later vandalized with the more troublesome Nazi one.
Berkley, Massachusetts
A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.
Blythe, California
Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.
Lowell, Massachusetts
The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.