Villa de Leyva, Colombia
Museo El Fósil
A museum built around a bus-sized fossil on the side of the highway.
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Villa de Leyva, Colombia
A museum built around a bus-sized fossil on the side of the highway.
Villa de Leyva, Colombia
This colonial town in Colombia sits around the largest stone paved square in South America.
Zipaquira, Colombia
Cathedral carved out of salt, located a mile below the Earth's surface.
Bogotá, Colombia
The world's first crowdfunded skyscraper has not gone quite to plan.
Cabrera, Colombia
The world's largest ecosystem of its kind is home to South America's only native species of bear.
La Calera, Colombia
An abandoned company town and cement factory outside of Bogotá, now haunted by ghosts and scofflaws.
Guatavita, Colombia
The entire town looks like a slice of Spain that was carted across the ocean and plunked in the Andes.
Guatape, Colombia
Ripped apart by a bomb in 1993, the shell of Pablo Escobar's infamous vacation house still stands.
Inzá, Colombia
This collection of ancient, mountaintop, underground tombs was once hidden by decades of bloodshed.
Santa Marta, Colombia
An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Saba, Caribbean Netherlands
The shortest in the world, this landing strip stretches a mere 1,312 feet before steep cliffs on either end plunge into the Caribbean.
Chicago, Illinois
Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.
Chicago, Illinois
The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.
Chicago, Illinois
Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.
Chicago, Illinois
These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.
Berwyn, Illinois
The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.
Chicago, Illinois
What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.
Villa Park, Illinois
This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.
Batavia, Illinois
World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.
Joliet, Illinois
A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.
St. Charles, Illinois
A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.
Winnetka, Illinois
Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."
Orchard, Colorado
In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.
Central City, Colorado
This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.