Côn Đảo, Vietnam
Côn Đảo Prison
The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.
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Côn Đảo, Vietnam
The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.
Alton, Illinois
This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.
Aguas Calientes, Peru
It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.
Nottingham, England
A spooky juxtaposition of caves and graves gives this legend-filled cemetery a particularly haunting vibe.
Titusville, Florida
A building so large that it has its own weather.
Cape Canaveral, Florida
This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.
Titusville, Florida
The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.
Key West, Florida
The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.
Vallejo, California
The perfect spot for a picnic, right next to a giant ballistic missile.
Cherry Log, Georgia
An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.
Picacho, Arizona
Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.
Fort Meade, Maryland
A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.
Bouvet Island
This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.
Paris, France
The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.
Aguas Calientes, Peru
A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.
Beijing, China
Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?
Obergoms VS, Switzerland
A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.
Springdale, Utah
The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.
Out Skerries, Scotland
A remote island holds what claims to be Scotland's smallest cinema.
Yeadon, Pennsylvania
America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.
Foynes, Ireland
The world's only flying boat museum honors a small Irish village that sent 20th-century aviation to new heights.
Washington, D.C.
A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.
Cushamen, Argentina
With the Wild Bunch hunted almost to extinction and the law closing in on him, Butch Cassidy fled to this remote cabin in Argentina.
Shakaria, Jordan
A refurbished locomotive from a bygone era in the middle of the Jordanian desert.