London, England
Foundling Museum
Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.
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London, England
Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.
Aberystwyth, Wales
The world's smallest movie theater runs on solar power—an attraction in itself.
Castlemaine, Australia
An art gallery, studio, and shop that celebrates death.
Glenelg, Australia
Arcade chock-full of old timey, whimsical, hand-cranked automata and peepshows.
Melbourne, Australia
A cramped wooden attic that once housed one of the world's first movie studios.
Esperance, Australia
A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.
Berriedale, Australia
This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.
Sydney, Australia
This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.
Silverton, Australia
This shrine to film's most iconic wasteland wanderer is located in the very outback where the movies were shot.
Ventnor, Australia
An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.
Sydney, Australia
Australian museum dedicated to human health and lack thereof.
South Mount Cameron, Australia
A beautiful, but toxic, lake formed by mining.
Royal National Park, Australia
A sparkling sandstone cliffside that's worth a visit while it still exists.
East Warburton, Australia
Woven tree art gives this towering Australian woodland a touch of mystical whimsy.
Bundoora, Australia
Dilapidated ruins that once treated a notorious young serial killer, currently hosting vandals, squatters, and ghost hunters.
Helensburgh, Australia
An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.
Hyden, Australia
This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.
Australia
An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.
Suva, Fiji
Recently revamped museum of Fijian history located within a gorgeous colonial-era garden.
Tahiti, French Polynesia
Site of James Cook's historic observations of the 1769 transit of Venus.
Inarajan, Guam
The underground hideout of a Japanese soldier for whom World War II ended in 1972.
Marshall Islands
The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.
Marshall Islands
An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.
Nanwei, Micronesia
The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.