Corgarff, Scotland
Corgarff Castle
This Scottish castle has witnessed clan rivalries, Jacobite uprisings, whisky smuggling, and more.
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Corgarff, Scotland
This Scottish castle has witnessed clan rivalries, Jacobite uprisings, whisky smuggling, and more.
Abiquiu, New Mexico
Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.
Madrid, Spain
This postmodern apartment block was designed to be a vertical neighborhood.
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
No building in the world leans as far as the so-called “Leaning Tower of Abu Dhabi.”
Dollaaskraal, South Africa
These otherworldly caverns form Earth's oldest known cave system.
Amsterdam Island, Norway
These circular ruins are all that remain of a 17th-century Arctic whaling outpost.
Fortescue, Australia
Many rock climbers have come to conquer this slender sea stack, with various degrees of success.
Stratford, New Zealand
This mechanical clock performs "Romeo and Juliet" in a Shakespeare-themed New Zealand town.
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
The Earth's saltiest natural body of water belches toxic gas.
Frankfurt, Germany
The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.
Kassel, Germany
A modern museum dedicated to the fairytales and dictionary work of the Brothers Grimm.
Sark, Guernsey
One of the world's smallest prisons boasts just two small cells.
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
This dragon-shaped sports arena is the world’s largest solar-powered stadium.
London, Ontario
The world’s oldest baseball field had to fight to earn its record.
Bournemouth, England
The world's shortest funicular ferries beachgoers a whopping 128 feet from clifftop to shore.
Brussels, Belgium
This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.
Tehran, Iran
One of the world's largest shopping malls covers an area of 15 million square feet—and it's still set to grow.
Tembagapura, Indonesia
This mile-wide crater high in the mountains of Indonesia is the largest gold mine in the world.
Asheville, North Carolina
A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.
London, England
Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.
Mahabaleshwar, India
This fortress played a key role in the battle that would ultimately give rise to the Maratha Empire.
Odintsovsky District, Russia
You'll find rocket launchers, not rollercoasters, at Russia's “military Disneyland.”
Natchez, Mississippi
Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.
Odate, Japan
This sports stadium was made from 25,000 cypress trees and ranks among the world's largest wooden domes.