Topeka, Kansas
Evel Knievel Museum
See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.
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Topeka, Kansas
See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.
Andros, Greece
Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.
Bolivia
On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.
Panjin Shi, China
A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.
Brooklyn, New York
This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.
New York, New York
A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.
Chamarel, Mauritius
This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.
Matera, Italy
An abandoned quarry hides an open-air gallery of huge sculptures, some made from the rubble of 9/11.
Washington, D.C.
A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.
Leiden, Netherlands
Graffiti covers the walls of a room where university students through the centuries have waited nervously to defend their theses.
Tokyo, Japan
Every color in the rainbow awaits.
Wellesley, Ontario
It took over 100 years to decode this enigmatic epitaph for two buried brides.
Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin
Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.
Tokyo, Japan
The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.
Saugerties, New York
One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.
Sudan
All that remains of Jacques Cousteau's 1960s underwater "village."
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.
Delices, Dominica
This mountaintop lake bubbles and steams in a perpetual boil, thanks to its direct link to the Earth's interior.
Chile
A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.
New Zealand
The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.
Cardigan, Prince Edward Island
While this is positively the smallest library in Canada, it aspires to be the smallest in the world.
Luray, Virginia
An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.
Dearborn, Michigan
A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.
New Haven, Connecticut
An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.