California
Farallon Islands
Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.
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California
Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.
Forestville, California
Eccentric sculptures made from repurposed materials peppers this former farm.
Santa Rosa, California
340 bicycles, 65 feet high.
Calistoga, California
California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.
Napa, California
Napa's oldest building is now a Mexican restaurant.
Madison, Wisconsin
Pick up the receiver of this ordinary-looking phone booth and more than ten hours of voices, music, laughter and memories from the past come unexpectedly back through the line.
Čibukovac, Serbia
Three people can fit inside this little Serbian Orthodox church carved inside a 500-year-old oak tree.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Not your average Bosnian cafe — this locale is dedicated to the former Yugoslav dictator Tito.
New York, New York
It memorializes America’s initial military response to the terrorist attacks on our country on September 11, 2001.
Eureka, Missouri
This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.
Winslow, Arizona
A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The place where World War I began.
Kildonan, Scotland
Dating back roughly 240 million years to the Triassic period, it was left by a large, 12-foot-long crocodile ancestor called a Chirotherium or "hand-beast".
Siem Reap, Cambodia
See the streets of Siem Reap light up with themed paper puppets.
Berlin, Germany
The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".
Berlin, Germany
Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.
Indio, California
The sequential animation shows a galloping horse stretching, morphing into a winged Pegasus, and finally transforming into a bird soaring.
Ottawa, Illinois
A goofy attempt to generate business for a repair shop turned into one of Ottawa's favorite tourist attractions.
Hong Kong
Hidden on top of a ferry terminal is a nifty statue of three dolphins, and one of Hong Kong's best sunset viewpoints.
Rock Springs, Wyoming
A local museum remembers one of the worst acts of anti-Chinese violence in American history.
Chicago, Illinois
The rodent-shaped sidewalk imprint that earned worldwide media attention.
Mountain View, California
A gathering of green robots at the Googleplex.
Tokyo, Japan
A statue meant to celebrate peace has also been interpreted as a mother taking away her son's internet privileges.
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
In 2019, an anonymous photo of a windowless room with eerie yellow wallpaper was posted to 4chan from this building, launching 'The Backrooms', one of the internet’s most massive collaborative horror phenomena.