Whitehaven Beach in Whitsunday Island, Australia
Located on Australia's Whitsunday Island, Whitehaven Beach is seven kilometers of miraculous white sand that is perfect for equally pristine visitors. Unlike most beaches in the world Whitehaven gets...
View ArticleDanbury Railway Museum in Danbury , Conneticut
Originally built in 1901, the railway station which now houses the Danbury Railway Museum has gone from flourishing travel hub to flourishing volunteer project.After consolidating three separate...
View ArticleRaynham Hall Museum in Oyster Bay, New York
This Colonial house was part of George Washington’s spy ring, home of America’s first valentine card, and is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a girl who died of unrequited love for an enemy English...
View ArticleIca Stones st the Cabrera Museum in Ica, Peru
It is a rare object that stimulates the curiosity of archaeologists, ancient astronaut theorists, Atlantis supporters, and creationists who want to prove that dinosaurs co-existed with men: but the...
View ArticleSubmarine Force Museum in Groton, Conneticut
After its beginnings as the world's largest submarine library, the Submarine Force Museum now also holds countless pieces of sub-maritime history. Located on Connecticut's Thames River the US Navy's...
View ArticleCastro de Baroña Celtic Ruins in Porto do Son, Spain
Known as the Castro culture, the Celtic people who once settled the northern parts of what is now Spain and Portugal from approximately the 9th century BC to the Roman era built extensive stone...
View ArticleNagarjunsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve in India
Over 3,500 acres of roaring reservoirs, ancient temples, rocky cliffs and monsoon-swept plains make up the magnificent Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve, largest tiger reserve in India.Spread over...
View ArticleSurreal Elevator in Woodside, New York
Elevators could not be more predictable.Though some have ornate interiors and others have spare, utilitarian insides, they're hardly surprising. That's what makes this elevator in a former Macy's...
View ArticleEinsteinhaus in Bern, Switzerland
Tucked away on the second floor of an otherwise unremarkable apartment building in Bern, Switzerland, the Einsteinhaus (Einstein House) preserves the workspace which produced some of the most important...
View ArticleMarble Palace in Calcutta, India
Built by a wealthy Bengali merchant with a penchant for art and luxury, the Marble Palace in Kolkata recalls a time when Calcutta was known for its opulence.The palace was built by Raja Rajendra...
View ArticleTaroko Gorge in Taroko National Park, Taiwan
Made up of towering walls of marble and limestone, covered in abundant sub-tropical greenery, dotted with shrines, riddled with tunnels and spanned by hanging bridges, the extraordinary and dramatic...
View ArticleDunino Den in Dunino, Scotland
Believed by many to be haunted by fairies and other creatures of Celtic legend, the Dunino Den and its surrounding features definitely create a supernatural atmosphere. In the woods behind the Dunino...
View ArticleJames Farley Post Office in New York, New York
Squashed between Madison Square Garden and Penn Station, the James Farley Post Office was built in 1912, and is proudly inscribed with the unofficial creed of the United States Postal Service: Neither...
View ArticleSalvador Dali Sundial in Paris, France
Up above Rue Saint-Jacques in Paris is a curious sundial designed by artist Salvador Dalí. Its human-like face is a scallop shell, while blue eyes with eyebrows like flames are cast in the concrete.The...
View ArticleRed Gate Woods in Willow Springs, Illinois
"Caution - Do Not Dig"A curious epitaph, but a forest preserve is a curious place to house a nuclear reactor laboratory, and Red Gates Woods in Cook County, Illinois had all kinds of unusual happenings...
View ArticleEndangered Bighorn Sheep In-Ko-Pah in Jacumba, California
Just off of the roadway below the Anza Borrego Desert View Tower, these gravity defying creatures can be spotted nestling in the treacherous peaks of Anza-Borrego Park. After dipping to a drastic low...
View ArticleKasbah Aït Benhaddou in Aït Benhaddou, Morocco
As this fortified city full of towering kasbahs and crumbling walls took a beatings from the brutal rains, its citizens defected into more modern digs on the other side of the Ounila River, except for...
View ArticleSan Lorenzo Aké in Ake, Mexico
The Yucatán is a region well known for having a plethora of Mayan ruins, cenotes, and colonial architecture - demonstrated beautifully by the Hacienda.One of these three things can be found at least...
View ArticleNational Mining Hall of Fame and Museum in Leadville , Colorado
"Everything begins with mining. Everything!!!"At least that's what the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum believes. The museum sits in the center of Leadville, Colorado, the town with the highest...
View ArticlePeshtigo Fire Museum in Peshtigo, Wisconsin
Peshtigo is the site of The Great Peshtigo Fire, the most lethal natural fire in U.S. history.On Oct. 8, 1871, dry conditions and strong winds invited a deadly inferno the swept through the community...
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