Terlingua, Texas
Lajitas Ghost Town
Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.
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Terlingua, Texas
Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Bastrop, Texas
The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.
Britannia Beach, British Columbia
From mining complex to industrial exhibition, this museum once played a major part in the X-Files.
Whistler, British Columbia
The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.
Qualicum Beach, British Columbia
This country market harbors goats on its roof.
Egmont, British Columbia
The water swaps direction twice a day, whipping into a frenzy of whirlpools and rapids.
Qualicum Beach, British Columbia
Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.
Kasol, India
Remote town home to Himachalis, Israelis, and tons of hashish.
Dhar Lama Chung Chung, India
This hilltop warren of monastic dwellings is the result of centuries worth of Mongol attacks.
Hyden, Australia
This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.
Callanna, Australia
Not a single witness can attest to the creation of the world's largest geoglyph.
Australia
This pair of Australian "waterfalls" appear to be falling straight across the land.
Davenport, Australia
Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.
Coober Pedy, Australia
This eccentric cave dwelling is bizarre even by the standards of a subterranean town.
Marble Bar, Australia
Microscopic fossils suggest Australia may be the birthplace of sulphur-based life forms.
Ghan, Australia
Finding the exact middle of a giant land mass is hard to determine, but this spot managed to do the trick.
Desert Springs, Australia
Olive’s garden serves up a seemingly endless helping of outback delights.
Urubamba, Peru
Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.
Peru
These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.
Urubamba, Peru
Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.
Nazca, Peru
A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.
Nazca, Peru
A museum dedicated to the German scientist who revealed the significance of the mysterious Peruvian Nazca Lines.
Peru
White llama terraces dazzle in Peru's "other Machu Picchu."