Belmonte, Portugal
Centum Cellas
This enigmatic Roman tower lurks just outside Belmonte.
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Belmonte, Portugal
This enigmatic Roman tower lurks just outside Belmonte.
Budapest, Hungary
The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.
Lancaster, California
Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.
Kyiv, Ukraine
An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.
Amersfoort, Netherlands
The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.
Dixon, California
This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.
Trujillo, Honduras
Fenced off in a garden cemetery in Honduras lies the grave of the most notorious American filibuster.
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Originally a cemetery, this city park remains speckled with a handful of scattered gravestones.
San Luis Obispo, California
A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.
San Francisco, California
A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.
East Jerusalem, Israel
A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.
Frederiksberg, Denmark
A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.
Combe, England
Death hangs in the air here, where a 17th-century gibbet has been erected on a Neolithic tomb.
Vejle, Denmark
When this Iron Age bog body was discovered in 1835, it was thought that she had died recently.
San Biagio Platani, Italy
Every Easter, a small Sicilian town builds a stunning cathedral out of bread.
Kershaw, South Carolina
Granite outcropping that the state's tourism bureau doesn't promote because of its delicate ecosystem.
San Francisco, California
A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.
Chicago, Illinois
A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.
Chicago, Illinois
Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.
Darmstadt, Germany
This remarkable parking garage in Darmstadt has lived several lives and still contains remnants of its World War I past.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The bell that once tolled atop a lost Edinburgh gate now hangs for all to see.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.