Whitby, England
199 Steps Coffin Benches
These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.
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Whitby, England
These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
This pair of running lions engraved on animal bone is one of the earliest artistic depictions of big cats.
Mexcaltitán de Uribe, Mexico
Legend says this tiny ancient island is the lost ancestral homeland of the Aztecs.
The Hague, Netherlands
Rumored to have been frequented by Vincent van Gogh, it's the only remaining genever producer in the Hague.
Paris, France
The tombstone of an unfortunate explorer who disappeared in the Paris Catacombs.
Grantsville, Utah
A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.
Province of Matera, Italy
An Italian hillside ghost town.
Nueva Gerona, Cuba
A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.
Skagen, Denmark
Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.
San Luis Obispo, California
A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.
Fredericksburg, Virginia
The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.
Shengshan Island, China
This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.
Nags Head, North Carolina
This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.
Northwest Arctic, Alaska
Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.
Bramhope, England
This Gothic castle-like portal is a testament to the amazing craftsmanship of the navvies who built the railway tunnel.
Oviedo, Spain
This Bronze Age man spent millennia buried in a mine, giving his bones an eerie hue.
Alexandria, Virginia
The only place for a truly presidential dram.
Cape Town, South Africa
This road winds through the steep coastal cliffside offering spectacular views for those who brave the drive.
Suttons Bay, Michigan
Where else would you expect to find the gravesite of European royalty than the windswept dunes of rural Northern Michigan?
San Francisco, California
Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Swim or sail to this pie-slinging boat off the coast of St. Thomas.
El Prado, New Mexico
These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.
San Rafael, California
Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.
Prague, Czechia
A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.