Rome, Italy
The Aventine Keyhole
Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.
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Rome, Italy
Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.
Daniel Campos, Bolivia
A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.
Washington, D.C.
Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.
Key West, Florida
Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.
Tokyo, Japan
A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.
Orchard Park, New York
A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.
Napa, California
The largest drain hole in the world.
North Miami Beach, Florida
St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.
Saint Blazey, England
The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.
Collettsville, North Carolina
A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.
Clark County, Nevada
The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.
Dublin, Ireland
One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.
Hong Kong
This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.
Tokyo, Japan
Tell this pair of "love-inviting" cats in Ginza your romantic hopes.
Paris, France
An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.
Yemen
The most alien-looking place on Earth.
San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, Spain
Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.
Australia
This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.
Erfurt, Germany
This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.
Alliance, Nebraska
An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.
Mt. Jewett, Pennsylvania
Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.
Ischia, Italy
Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.
Portland, Oregon
A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.