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Franceschi Park in Santa Barbara, California
Perched high on the Riviera mount, in one of Santa Barbara’s most prestigious suburbs, a dilapidated mansion sits in ruin among what was once one of the finest gardens in California.Built in 1893 by...
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Colorado Gators Reptile Park in Mosca, Colorado
Colorado is known for its gorgeous red rock formations and wide-open spaces, but one small reptile park has made it a destination for leathernecks looking to get into alligator wrestling.In 1987 local...
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Site of Alexandria on the Caucasus in Bagram Valley, Afghanistan
The Western world has had a number of troubles with the Afghan world in recent history, but one of the earliest attempts at colonization of the area has been all but forgotten to time.In 329 BC,...
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Donkergat Whaling Station in Saldanha, South Africa
The famed naturalist Peter Matthiessen once said of whaling, “Nothing is wasted but the whale itself.” The station at Donkergat was opened on the country’s western coast in 1909, and its three ships...
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Good Vibrations Antique Vibrator Museum in San Francisco, California
Oh, the good ol' days.Starting in the Victorian era, medically induced orgasms in women were practiced as a legitimate cure for what was then called female hysteria — characterized by anxiety, sexual...
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National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park, England
Back during World War II, giant computers were at work in Bletchley Park to decipher the encrypted messages between Hitler and his generals. Now at the National Museum of Computing you can explore that...
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Bay Bridge Troll in Oakland, California
Whether its a troll, a demon, a gremlin, or a boggart, the malevolent steel figure welded to the underside of San Francisco's Bay Bridge has supposedly been keeping the span safe since its...
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Bunkers of Alvira, Pennsylvania in Allenwood, Pennsylvania
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, the United States was determined to ramp up production of necessary war materials, at all costs. To this end, in the spring of 1942 the federal...
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Shanghai French Concession in Shanghai, China
While this Shanghai neighborhood no longer has any official French ownership, the area is still ruled by a laid-back attitude and European architecture.Located in the northeastern portion of the modern...
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Charlie Parker Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri
Located next to the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, the Charlie Parker Memorial pays homage to one of the innovators of jazz music.Charlie Parker was one of the most influential...
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Splendid China in Kissimmee, Florida
Real estate in the bustling tourist mecca of Orlando, Florida is a hot commodity so it is rare for any unused space to be left abandoned, but the old Splendid China theme park has been rotting away...
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Arsenalna Metro Station in Kiev, Ukraine
When a river blocks travel some cities build bridges and others just go right under it, no matter how deep that requires builders to go.Such was the plan when the Kiev Metro needed to bypass the...
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Mt. Moriah Cemetery in Deadwood, South Dakota
You can often tell the history of a town through its cemetery.And one little cemetery in Deadwood, South Dakota, stands taller than the rest. Buried in Mt. Moriah Cemetery, overlooking Deadwood Gulch,...
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Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles, California
We’ve all seen it in movies, TV shows, photographs, postcards, and commercials – the sign that lets you know you’re in the motion picture capital of the world. The Hollywood sign was dedicated in 1923,...
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Adams National Historic Park in Quincy, Massachusetts
"It is but the farm of a Patriot."John Adams was many things: a teacher, lawyer, Harvard graduate, ambassador, Vice President, President, and signatory of the Declaration of Independence. But the life...
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Museum of the History of Lithuanian Medicine and Pharmacy in Kaunas, Lithuania
Located in the refurbished home of a 16th century merchant since 1987, Kaunas, Lithuania's Museum of the History of Lithuanian Medicine and Pharmacy was first established in 1936 by Alfonsas Kaikaris,...
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Tempio Canoviano in Possagno, Italy
Designed by Antonio Canova from 1804 to 1818, the Tempio Canoviano was built to be the perfect example of neoclassical architecture, and now serves as the final resting place of the influential...
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Museum of Whales and Things in Port au Choix, Canada
In an old Basque fishing port on the western Newfoundland coast lies artist Ben Ploughman's quirky Museum of Whales and Things.What are the "things"? Well, pretty much whatever Ploughman finds...
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World Joyland Theme Park in Changzhou, China
Chinese knock-offs of popular products and intellectual properties are a common enough occurrence, but World Joyland Theme Park's appropriation of popular video game imagery takes bootlegging to a...
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Bunkers of Alvira in Allenwood, Pennsylvania
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, the United States was determined to ramp up production of necessary war materials, at all costs. To this end, in the spring of 1942 the federal...
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