Reykjavik, Iceland
Álfaskólinn (Elf School)
Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.
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Reykjavik, Iceland
Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.
Bíldudalur, Iceland
The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.
McKittrick, California
Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.
Buttonwillow, California
In the country around Buttonwillow, California, a marker commemorates a revealing moment in the story of a water colony from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere that sought independence.
Los Angeles, California
The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.
Alta, Norway
The world's northernmost ice hotel.
Svalbard, Norway
This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.
Prague, Czechia
Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.
Goldfield, Nevada
Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.
Tonopah, Nevada
Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.
Asnières-sur-Seine, France
The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.
Byron, California
A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.
Yamanouchi, Japan
Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Ghent, Belgium
A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.
Canfranc, Spain
Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.
Tepoztlán, Mexico
Concrete construction materials turned into a fashionable capsule hotel in rural Mexico.
Lo-Reninge, Belgium
A taxus-tree to which Julius Caesar reputedly tied his horse.
Bruges, Belgium
Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.
Brussels, Belgium
Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.
Paris, France
Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.
Paris, France
Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.
San Francisco, California
The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.