Friskney, England
RAF Wainfleet Control Tower
The control tower at the historic weapons range is now available as a highly unusual vacation rental.
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Friskney, England
The control tower at the historic weapons range is now available as a highly unusual vacation rental.
La Cañada Flintridge, California
NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.
Warren, Ohio
The site of Neil Armstrong's first flight is marked by a full on replica of the moon landers.
North Pole, Alaska
An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.
Fairbanks, Alaska
Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.
Danby, Vermont
The world’s largest underground marble quarry is hiding in Vermont.
Budapest, Hungary
The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.
Cantil, California
Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.
Amiens, France
Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.
Marfa, Texas
This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.
Winnemucca, Nevada
Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants
London, England
The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.
London, England
The London statue that imitates passersby.
Topeka, Kansas
See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.
Seydisfjordur, Iceland
These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.
Seydisfjordur, Iceland
An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.
Istanbul, Turkey
A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.
Ocotillo, California
A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.
Yekaterinburg, Russia
It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.
Cartagena, Colombia
A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.
San Diego, California
One of the largest trees of its kind in California.
Portland, Oregon
Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.
Washington, D.C.
A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.
San Diego, California
This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.