Wunsiedel, Germany
Luisenburg Rock Labyrinth
Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.
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Wunsiedel, Germany
Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.
Kidderminster, England
Built by the patron saint of illusionists this Elizabethan manor house is riddled with secret cubbies for hiding priests.
Richfield, Utah
One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.
Italy
A spiritual sanctuary in a natural cave.
Waterbury, Connecticut
A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.
Stockholm, Sweden
This railroad track was so secretive that it was omitted from all maps.
Iceland
Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.
Wustermark, Germany
The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.
Tallinn, Estonia
An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.
Houston, Texas
A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.
Pisa, Italy
Next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a cemetery home to ancient sarcophagi and disturbing murals.
Kyoto, Japan
With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.
Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
California City, California
The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.
Euclid, Ohio
This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.
Chios, Greece
Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.
Pirgi, Greece
This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.
Chattancourt, France
A memorial to the soldiers who died in the bloody battles to control Verdun in World War I.
Rome, Italy
This gallery commissioned by Cardinal Spada is known for its magnificent optical illusion.
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Promised Land, Australia
A huge maze complex and whimsical miniature village in Tasmania.
Irving, Texas
This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.