Los Angeles, California
The El Segundo Butterfly Preserve
A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.
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Los Angeles, California
A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.
Los Angeles, California
A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.
Los Angeles, California
Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.
Los Angeles, California
Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.
Los Angeles, California
Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.
Columbus, Ohio
Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.
Chișcău, Romania
This bone-filled cave got its name after they found 140 bear skeletons inside.
Madrid, Spain
Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.
Bezidu Nou, Romania
This Romanian village may have been drowned, but it is long from forgotten.
Șinca, Romania
No one knows who built this strange cave of worship or exactly why.
Sparta, Wisconsin
These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.
Boston, Massachusetts
The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.
Nyack, New York
These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.
Turda, Romania
This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.
Montrose, South Dakota
A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.
Bologna, Italy
An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.
Florence, Italy
The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.
Chicago, Illinois
All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.
Itami, Japan
The Japanese mayo factory famous for its cute mascot.
Toddville, Maryland
After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.
Havana, Cuba
In terms of history and architecture, this is one of the most remarkable cemeteries in the world.
Paris, France
This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.
Thurmont, Maryland
This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.