Helensburgh, Australia
Glowworm Tunnel
An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.
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Helensburgh, Australia
An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.
Lafayette, Indiana
An unknown number of cholera victims are buried in two nondescript graves.
Seattle, Washington
This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.
Playa Girón, Cuba
A small museum in the Bay of Pigs gives the Cuban perspective on the famously failed U.S. invasion.
Shanghai, China
The world's first hotel built in an abandoned water-filled quarry.
Carrara, Italy
Explore the quarry where the marble was sourced for Michaelangelo's David.
Prague, Czechia
What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
The world's only bushplane museum captures the spirit of the early planes and pilots and their contributions to northern life in Canada.
Old Whittington, England
A secret meeting in this small cottage changed the course of British history.
Toronto, Ontario
One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.
Budapest, Hungary
A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.
Gildeskål, Norway
Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.
North Pole, Alaska
An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.
Shchyolkovo, Russia
Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.
Coventry, England
Built in the 1300s, this magnificent building that hosted England's kings and queens transports you to the Middle Ages.
Pueblo, Colorado
A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.
Huntsville, Alabama
It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.
Hutchinson, Kansas
The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.
Glenfinnan, Scotland
Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.
Mills, New Mexico
Adobe ruins punctuate the beauty of an 800 foot canyon carved by the Canadian River.
Watrous, New Mexico
The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.