Nouadhibou, Mauritania
Bay of Nouadhibou Ship Graveyard
The world's largest ship graveyard is the product of decades of corruption.
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Nouadhibou, Mauritania
The world's largest ship graveyard is the product of decades of corruption.
Stoke-on-Trent, England
An open air haven for tropical monkeys in the damp moors of the English country.
Paga, Ghana
The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Living inside a fearsome reptile in the Ivory Coast.
Boston, Massachusetts
This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.
Addison, Vermont
Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".
Grafton, Vermont
Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.
Hart's Location, New Hampshire
Rock face that shares a name with Mary Shelley's famous doctor.
Corinth, Vermont
The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."
Williamstown, Vermont
The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.
Oakland, California
This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.
Palo Alto, California
Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.
Palo Alto, California
Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.
New York, New York
Three-story slide through the New Museum.
London, England
Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.
Marquette, Michigan
Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.
Mutsu, Japan
This mountain's identity is stuck somewhere between a nightmare and a scenic tourist attraction.
Alamo, Nevada
An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.
Puerto Río Tranquilo, Chile
Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.
Santa Ynez, California
The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.
Nara, Japan
The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.
Clifton, New Jersey
Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.
West Milford, New Jersey
This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.
Detroit, Michigan
The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.