Berlin, Germany
Mäusebunker
Along the banks of the Teltow Canal in southwestern Berlin stands one of the city’s most controversial buildings, a hulking Brutalist laboratory that looks more like a warship than a research facility.
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Berlin, Germany
Along the banks of the Teltow Canal in southwestern Berlin stands one of the city’s most controversial buildings, a hulking Brutalist laboratory that looks more like a warship than a research facility.
Kourou, French Guiana
Europe’s only spaceport is in South America.
El Médano, Spain
These sandstone replicas of a whale spine represent the history and culture of the Canary Islands.
Boston, Massachusetts
A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A unique shopping and dining park created from old shipping containers and filled with local businesses.
Dijon, France
A forgotten stone skeleton of medieval Dijon slumbers beneath the feet of unsuspecting museum visitors.
Xian Shi, China
A life-sized imperial army, buried in battle formation, has stood underground for over 2,000 years—built not for war, but for eternity.
California
An improbable creek near Death Valley, not far from the oldest surviving Euro-American structure in the Mojave Desert.
Liverpool, England
A neoclassical crypt hides under Liverpool’s modernist cathedral.
Scotland
The remains of prehistoric monument make this place feel secluded, as if history wants to tell you something.
Morgan City, Louisiana
The only place in the world where the general public can walk aboard an authentic offshore drilling rig.
Bamburgh, England
A church instrumental in the spreading of Christianity in England and the final resting place of hundreds of Saxons.
Berlin, Germany
Art and concrete merge into a single entity within a WWII bunker that possesses a deeply storied and turbulent history.
England
A ruined farmhouse that inspired an (inaccurate) illustration for Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel “Wuthering Heights.”
Scotland
A stone burial chamber that was also the site of religious rituals.
Scotland
A folly hidden in the woods that once became home to a cowherd.
Monticello, Utah
One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.
Norwich, Connecticut
Abandoned 37.5' diameter rusted metal sphere sitting in the woods.
Tivetshall St Mary, England
Ruins of a church in a peaceful location overlooking fields.
Virginia City, Nevada
At one time, it was the second deepest mine shaft on the planet!
West Hollywood, California
A legendary West Hollywood bar where celebrities shoot pool with the locals.
Indian Springs, Nevada
This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.
Mercury, Nevada
A desert journey through atomic history.
Esperance, Australia
This is a full-scale replica of a complete Stonehenge made from locally quarried Esperance granite.