Saint Andrews, Scotland
Saint Salvator's Unlucky PH
Every St. Andrews student knows to avoid this inscription for fear of a martyr's curse.
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Saint Andrews, Scotland
Every St. Andrews student knows to avoid this inscription for fear of a martyr's curse.
Key West, Florida
Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.
Sark, Guernsey
One of the world's smallest prisons boasts just two small cells.
Wichita Falls, Texas
World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.
Fort Sumner, New Mexico
A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.
London, England
A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.
Oakland, California
Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.
London, England
This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.
Key West, Florida
Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.
Williams, Arizona
Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.
Ellsworth, Maine
This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
A monument dedicated to a local softball team full of clowns.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
These strange carved boulders in a forested canyon resemble tiny stone villages.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.
Eyam, England
Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.
Kotor, Montenegro
These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.
Trojica, Montenegro
The hairpin turns in this mountain road take the shape of a letter—is it a coincidence or a symbol of love?
Kendal, England
This original castle in Kendal is 1,000 years old.
Bessans, France
From Carthage's Hannibal to riders of the Tour de France, many have crossed this scenic route through the Alps.
London, England
Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.
London, England
The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.
Rome, Italy
Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.
Glasgow, Scotland
A scattered trail of street art adds a pop of color to the city's stark structures.