Santa Margarita, California
Wallace Creek
The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.
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Santa Margarita, California
The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.
Flateyri, Iceland
The oldest bookstore in Iceland.
Butte, Montana
One of the last socialist halls still standing in the United States.
Lund, Sweden
Home to 200 plaster casts of Scandinavian proboscises.
Isle of Islay, Scotland
An unusually shaped lighthouse with origins rooted in heartbreak.
Flatey, Iceland
Once the site of a 12-century monastery, this tiny island is now home to only five permanent residents.
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
A collection of old steam and diesel locomotives sitting in a fenced-off garden.
Ashland, Pennsylvania
The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.
Furore, Italy
A narrow opening between the mountains of the Amalfi Coast creates a scenic hidden beach.
Salerno, Italy
According to the legend, this structure was built in a single night with the help of the devil.
San Nicola di Tremiti, Italy
An abandoned monastery sits on a far-off island in the Adriatic Sea.
Tamanrasset, Algeria
A century-old stone hermitage overlooks this remote pass in the Hoggar mountains, surrounded by a landscape of eroded volcanic cores.
In Amguel, Algeria
One of the best-preserved impact craters on the planet is located in the middle of the Sahara Desert.
Mexico
These cliff-dwellings might be Mexico's least visited archaeological site.
Toad River, British Columbia
At a lodge and RV park is a collection of headwear that comes in at more than 11,300 and counting.
Big Sur, California
Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.
Guatemala City, Guatemala
It's not quite as old as its Roman appearance suggests, but this piece of infrastructure served Guatemala City for centuries.
Bassano del Grappa, Italy
Destroyed numerous times, this centuries-old bridge has always been rebuilt with its original design.
Union Township, Missouri
A flat slab of stone perched hundreds of feet above the Gasconade River in the northern Ozark mountains.
Squamish, British Columbia
As you overlook the Howe Sound and the town of Squamish, your breath will be taken away by its beauty or the stairs... probably all the stairs.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.
Knoxville, Iowa
The only museum in the world dedicated to the history of sprint car racing, next to one of the country's most historic dirt tracks.
Slatina, Czechia
These small, brass stones commemorate the first Roma victims of the Holocaust.
Visby, Sweden
Buried beneath an unassuming Gotland farm was the largest collection of Viking silver, mostly of Islamic origin.