Pompeii, Italy
Plaster Citizens of Pompeii
The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.
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Pompeii, Italy
The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.
London, England
London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.
Littleton, North Carolina
Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.
Hveragerði, Iceland
Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.
Barcelona, Spain
This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.
London, England
The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.
Iceland
Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.
Saint-Ouen, France
Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.
Millbrook, Alabama
The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.
Kilkenny, Ireland
This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.
Rome, Italy
The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.
Los Angeles, California
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
San Francisco, California
An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.
Austin, Texas
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
Naucalpan, Mexico
An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.
Rome, Italy
A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.
Washington, D.C.
This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Weeki Wachee, Florida
Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
The world's longest known cave system.
Sandwick, Scotland
Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.