Quemado, New Mexico
‘The Lightning Field’
In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.
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Quemado, New Mexico
In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.
Margate City, New Jersey
Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."
Dubova, Romania
A giant portrait of an ancient king looms over the river.
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.
Matmatat-Al-Qadimal, Tunisia
The original film set of Luke Skywalker's Tatooine home from the 'Star Wars' trilogy.
Queens, New York
The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.
Northwest Piscataquis, Maine
Steam engines and conveyor belts are remnants of a genius system left in the middle of the Maine woods.
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.
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.
Beacon, New York
Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.
Mammoth Lakes, California
Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.
Seattle, Washington
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
Leshan, China
This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.
Whitehorse, Yukon
This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.
Phonsavan, Laos
Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.
Salamanca, Spain
The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.
Gran Sabana, Venezuela
This "floating island" plateau sits 7,671 feet above the forest floor.
Titusville, Florida
A building so large that it has its own weather.
Burnley, England
A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.
Rapa Nui, Chile
The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.
Oslo, Norway
Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.
Strand, Norway
This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.
Piercy, California
An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.