Bruges, Belgium
Lumina Domestica
Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.
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Bruges, Belgium
Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.
Stoke Heath, England
An ode to the classic piece of British street furniture.
Stockport, England
Great Britain's only hat-making museum.
Fagersta N, Sweden
Few would expect the world's oldest preserved oil refinery to be found in Sweden.
Iceland
This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.
Kawasaki, Japan
One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.
Smithfield, Virginia
The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."
Hope Valley, England
These crude contraptions were used to aid in the mining of lead, silver and gold.
Katskhi, Georgia
Small church on top of a huge rock column.
Birmingham, England
England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.
Castleton, England
Some of England's last cave dwellers lived and worked within this huge cave.
Washington, D.C.
Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.
Middlesbrough, England
Built in 1911, the Tees Transporter Bridge is one of only six transporter bridges still in operation.
London, England
The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.
Nottingham, England
This Victorian marvel of engineering and artistic prowess is nicknamed the "Cathedral of Steam."
Washington, D.C.
The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.
Washington, D.C.
A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.
Llandudno, Wales
An unexpectedly extraterrestrial room in a former Victorian resort club.
Georgia
Ancient rock-hewn town that witnessed key events of Georgian history.
Chiatura, Georgia
These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city
Georgia
A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.
Lübeck, Germany
A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.
Pembroke, Wales
A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.
Saint-Rivoal, France
An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.