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Hyde Park Pet Cemetery

London, England

Hyde Park Pet Cemetery

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret

London, England

Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Ruins of a Victorian folly in Sydenham Hill Woods, London, UK. (Mark Bowler/Atlas Obscura)

London, England

Ruined Victorian Folly

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Nunhead Cemetery

London, England

Nunhead Cemetery

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

Crossbones Graveyard

London, England

Crossbones Graveyard

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Kensal Green Cemetery and Catacombs

London, England

Kensal Green Cemetery and Catacombs

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

Highgate Cemetery

London, England

Highgate Cemetery

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The outer end of Haedong Yonggungsa Temple

Sirang-ri, South Korea

Haedong Yonggungsa

One of only a handful of seaside temples in Korea, this sacred space is home to a legendary healing Buddha statue and a traffic safety prayer pagoda.

Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

Amherst, Massachusetts

Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

The monument, pictured by the artist himself.

Galveston, Texas

Pink Dolphin Monument

This little dolphin is the first monument dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community in the southern United States.

Oleander

Galveston, Texas

Betty Head Oleander Garden Park

The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.

S. S. Selma

Galveston, Texas

S. S. Selma

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

Woman Hollering Creek.

Saint Hedwig, Texas

Woman Hollering Creek

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

Boot Hill Cemetery

Tilden, Texas

Boot Hill Cemetery

"They died with their boots on."

Seaman's Memorial Tower

Aransas Pass, Texas

Seaman's Memorial Tower

A tower that pays homage to local sailors who perished under the waves.

Chapel on the Dunes

Port Aransas, Texas

Chapel on the Dunes

The oldest functional consecrated church on Mustang Island.

The Garden of Our Lady

Falmouth, Massachusetts

The Garden of Our Lady

Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Falmouth, Massachusetts

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi’s Grave

Final resting place of a pioneering scurvy researcher.

Shatter cones in the Santa Fe impact structure.

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe Shatter Cones

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

Bisti Badlands

Farmington, New Mexico

Bisti Badlands

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The landscape is pure geological eye candy.

Bloomfield, New Mexico

Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Study Area

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Mysterious Carved Rocks of Los Alamos

Los Alamos, New Mexico

Mysterious Carved Rocks of Los Alamos

These strange carved boulders in a forested canyon resemble tiny stone villages.

Bandalier National Monument

Los Alamos, New Mexico

Bandelier National Monument

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

The ruins of Chetro Ketl in Chaco Canyon.

Nageezi, New Mexico

Chaco Culture National Historical Park

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

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