Paju, South Korea
Korean Axe Murder Incident Memorial
A monument to the two U.S. officers killed by North Korean troops while trying to trim a poplar tree.
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Paju, South Korea
A monument to the two U.S. officers killed by North Korean troops while trying to trim a poplar tree.
Te Pahu, New Zealand
Hundreds of toothbrushes hang from a wire fence along a quiet New Zealand road.
Denver, Colorado
A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.
Göttingen, Germany
Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.
Kesennuma, Japan
Stone slabs along the coast warn of Japan's tsunami-ravaged past, often marking the highest point of a wave's reach.
Kuta, Indonesia
The wing of this deserted Boeing 737 almost touches the Dunkin' Donuts next door.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.
Pyeongchang, South Korea
The darkest building on Earth was built for the snow-white scenery of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Guano, Ecuador
A mummified Spanish monk found in the walls of an Ecuadorian church, alongside a mummified mouse.
Detroit, Michigan
The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.
Esperance, Australia
A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.
Pasco, Peru
Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.
Pisco, Peru
The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.
Lima, Peru
The large collection of pre-Columbian pottery might make you blush.
Lampa, Peru
This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.
Mariscal Cáceres Province, Peru
These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.
Puerto Inca, Peru
This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.
Nazca, Peru
Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.
Ninacaca, Peru
A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.