Kaumakani, Hawaii
Site of the Ni'ihau Incident
A Japanese pilot crash-landed on this Hawaiian island after the Pearl Harbor attack and terrorized locals for a week.
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Kaumakani, Hawaii
A Japanese pilot crash-landed on this Hawaiian island after the Pearl Harbor attack and terrorized locals for a week.
Berlin, Germany
The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.
District of Columbia
The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.
Berkley, Massachusetts
A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.
Cincinnati, Ohio
An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.
Antarctica
An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.
West Mineral, Kansas
The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.
Bangor, Maine
The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.
Burlington, Vermont
Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.
Edgartown, Massachusetts
The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.
Cavendish, Vermont
The monument dedicated to Phineas Gage in the town where his accident happened.
Exeter, New Hampshire
Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.
Sligo, Ireland
This 30-foot pile of rocks may be the grave of a mythological Irish queen.
Paris, France
The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.
Hancock, Maine
The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.
Lincoln, New Hampshire
A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.
Bolívar, Venezuela
The Canaima airstrip in Venezuela keeps an antique DC 3 plane in its camp.
Juraguá, Cuba
A nuclear power plant abandoned along with an international allegience.
Wieliczka, Poland
An underground city of salt.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Sossusvlei, Namibia
This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.
Solomon Islands
The ship that got left behind.
Ulcinj, Montenegro
On top of a resort town as old as the Bronze Age sits an incredible war memorial statue overlooking the beaches below.
Hiroshima, Japan
A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.