Da Nang, Vietnam
Fire-Breathing Dragon Bridge
This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.
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Da Nang, Vietnam
This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.
Hương Thủy, Vietnam
An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.
Hương Thủy, Vietnam
Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.
Bordighera, Italy
The top of society once luxuriated in this world-class hotel, which continues to impress, even in ruin.
Bourtange, Netherlands
This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.
Ayni, Tajikistan
This dark, damp, perilous tunnel is the only passage from north to south Tajikistan.
Isahaya, Japan
This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.
Hampi, India
The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.
Borth, Wales
A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.
Brooklyn, New York
First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.
Iceland
A winding, blood-red tunnel of hardened lava navigable by foot.
Forks, Washington
Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.
Chandigarh, India
A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.
Trunyan, Indonesia
One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.
Iceland
The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.
Medvezhyegorsky District, Russia
Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.
Trân Châu, Vietnam
This cavern was used as a hidden hospital and safe house during the Vietnam War.
Brest, Belarus
Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.
hajnowski, Poland
Old cabin-like homes in a rural community untouched by time are known for their vibrant and colorful window shutters.
Berlin, Germany
On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.
New York, New York
An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.
Družiniće, Serbia
A sinuous path among steep cliffs creates a stunning sight in southwestern Serbia.
Graniteville, Vermont
Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.
Halethorpe, Maryland
A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.