Bern, Switzerland
Mosesbrunnen
This bunny-eared Moses represents an attempted compromise between two biblical interpretations.
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Bern, Switzerland
This bunny-eared Moses represents an attempted compromise between two biblical interpretations.
Pozzuoli, Italy
Smack-dab in Campania’s volcanic fields, this scenic lake was once thought to be the gate of hell.
Milan, Italy
Third time's a charm, or in this case, two testicles are.
French Guiana
An abandoned colonial French prison notorious for its hellish conditions.
Nieuw Amsterdam, Suriname
An old Dutch lightvessel is now stuck in a dock near the mouth of the Suriname River.
Paramaribo, Suriname
This "witch's market" is filled with Amazonian herbs, remedies, and the occasional libido-strengthening tincture.
Guyana
The world's widest single drop waterfall, and the two men who legend says went over its edge in a boat.
Georgetown, Guyana
A monument to Cuffy, a rebellious enslaved person who became a national hero in Guyana.
Georgetown, Guyana
Georgetown’s most impressive building is also one of the tallest wooden churches in the world.
Georgetown, Guyana
Though dynamited and defaced, the statue still stands outside the law courts in Georgetown, Guyana.
Georgetown, Guyana
The largest market in Guyana, designed and built by the Edge Moor Iron Company of Delaware.
Georgetown, Guyana
The end appears to be nigh for the world's fourth-longest floating bridge.
Church View, Barbados
One of the last members of the Byzantine Empire's last ruling dynasty is buried in the far-off soil of Barbados.
Harrisons, Barbados
An abandoned lighthouse located on the cliffs of Barbados.
Barbados
This popular tourist cave was ignored for almost 200 years before being mined into an attraction.
Queens, New York
This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.
Baltimore, Maryland
America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.
Corpus Christi, Texas
A memorial dedicated to the Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla-Pérez.
Richmond, Virginia
Where three rails and three centuries of transportation meet.
Baltimore, Maryland
This Asian-inspired tower in a lush urban park provides spectacular panoramic views of Baltimore.
Baltimore, Maryland
Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.
Richmond, Virginia
This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.
Richmond, Virginia
In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.
Richmond, Virginia
A church now sits over the site of one of the worst urban disasters of early 19th-century America.