Reykjavik, Iceland
The Raven's Nest
This oceanside Reykjavik spot is speckled with recycled sculptures and large stones.
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Reykjavik, Iceland
This oceanside Reykjavik spot is speckled with recycled sculptures and large stones.
Independence, California
Home of the world-famous coyote-teeth dentures.
Florence, Oregon
The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.
Banff, Alberta
The oldest natural history museum in western Canada houses more than 5,000 vintage botanical and zoological specimens.
Improvement District No. 24, Alberta
The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country's last wood bison.
Omaha, Nebraska
A life-size bronze statue of Ettore Boiardi, the man behind the can.
Omaha, Nebraska
An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.
Brooklyn, New York
This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.
Paris, France
This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.
London, England
A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."
Bruges, Belgium
The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.
New London, Connecticut
New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.
Battle, England
Every fifth of November, effigies of Guy Fawkes are thrown onto bonfires across Great Britain. But this Guy has managed to survive his fiery fate for almost 300 years.
Burnaby, British Columbia
This is where all crows in the surrounding region come to roost from the entire Lower Mainland of Vancouver.
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.
Ripon, England
The old Workhouse in Ripon was the last resort for the poor of the district from 1834 until the birth of the British welfare state in the mid 20th century. It is now a poignant museum reminding us of the harshness of the Victorian poor law regime.
Orange, New Jersey
This is the location of the U.S. Radium Corporation where the “Radium Girls” worked, became sickened by radiation poisoning, with many dying horrible deaths.
Gainesville, Florida
This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.
Haddonfield, New Jersey
The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.
England
The only surviving theatre where William Shakespeare performed as an actor.
New York, New York
A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.
Christmas Island, Australia
The red crab exhibits one of the most spectacular migrations on earth, despite manmade obstacles.
San Francisco, California
The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.