New Bern, North Carolina
Green Springs
This multi-story wooden waterpark offers homemade thrills.
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New Bern, North Carolina
This multi-story wooden waterpark offers homemade thrills.
Glasgow, Scotland
The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.
Anchorage, Alaska
This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.
New York, New York
The famous facade of Grand Central Terminal hides a regulation tennis court—and it's not the first one.
Lucerne, Switzerland
This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.
Stockholm, Sweden
A steel paper plane is all that remains of a crashed aircraft that caused an amazingly small amount of damage.
Milan, Italy
Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.
Green Valley, Arizona
After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.
Toronto, Ontario
Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.
Whitehorse, Yukon
When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.
London, England
Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.
Augsburg, Germany
In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.
New York, New York
This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Inspired by "The Starry Night" this Dutch bike path turns into a glowing work of art each night.
Copenhagen, Denmark
An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.
Newport, Rhode Island
This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.
Brooklyn, New York
A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories
New York, New York
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
Marshall Islands
An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.
Newport, Rhode Island
A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.
Caernarfon, Wales
The highest peak in Wales is said to be the final resting place of a giant killed by King Arthur.
Jackson, Mississippi
Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.
Linköping, Sweden
This simple roadside art installation ended up sparking a folk art movement and a controversy of international proportions.
São Paulo, Brazil
The pedestrian traffic signals in Brazil's teeming metropolis light up with clues to nearby landmarks.