Grímsey, Iceland
Grímsey Island
The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.
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Grímsey, Iceland
The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.
Ithaca, New York
This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.
Willoughby Hills, Ohio
Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.
Northport, New York
This graceful little figure is a one-of-a-kind version of the cherished character.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.
Reykjavik, Iceland
This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.
Alderson, West Virginia
This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.
Vĩnh Thạch, Vietnam
This network of tunnels housed an entire village for years, and even had a hall for screening movies.
Hitchin, England
This crumbling 14th century chapel became so unstable the roofing apparently collapsed during a wedding ceremony, narrowly missing the curate's head.
Ashton-Sandy Spring, Maryland
Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.
New York, New York
The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."
Réunion
At the center of an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean is a deep chasm ringed by tall waterfalls.
Antarctica
These giant volcano sponges in Antarctica are thought to be the world's oldest living animal, at 15,000 years old.
Linköping, Sweden
From under the bed of one of the co-founders, this server helped launch the notorious file-sharing website.
Varese, Italy
A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.
Pembroke, Wales
A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.
Southend-on-Sea, England
A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.
Sarasota, Florida
The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.
Jackson, Wyoming
One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.
Kobe, Japan
An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.
Washington, D.C.
A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.
Estacada, Oregon
A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.
Lhasa, Tibet
This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.
Koganei, Japan
Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.