Garenin, Scotland
Gearrannan Blackhouse Village
Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.
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Garenin, Scotland
Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.
Gerlach, Nevada
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.
London, England
The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.
London, England
An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.
Portugal
This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.
Traverse City, Michigan
A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.
Chicago, Illinois
An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.
Hazard, Kentucky
An enormous goose sits atop this nest-shaped home.
Venice, Italy
Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.
Port Renfrew, British Columbia
Saved by a logger, this Douglas fir is one of the last great old-growth trees in Canada.
Puebla, Mexico
This cluttered cantina is famed for its cheese-spiked, raisin-flavored liqueur.
Bar Harbor, Maine
These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.
Choum, Mauritania
Climb atop one of the world's longest and heaviest trains for an unbelievable journey across the Sahara Desert.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.
Launceston, England
A holy well supposedly infused with a saint's spirit flows within this quaint chapel.
St. Petersburg, Florida
The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.
Seringes-et-Nesles, France
This secret cemetery where no flag is allowed to fly holds the bodies of American soldiers convicted of heinous crimes during WWII.
Smyrna, New York
See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.
Mesa, Arizona
These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.
Aviemore, Scotland
Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.
Ishinomaki, Japan
On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.
Calipatria, California
At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.
London, England
This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.
New York, New York
Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.