Naganeupseong Folk Village in Suncheon-si, South Korea
Naganeupseong is home to more than two hundred Koreans who still live out their daily lives much the same as Koreans did during the height of the Joseon Dynasty.This small village in the eastern...
View ArticleCornhenge in Dublin, Ohio
Corn stalks are notoriously tall but the ears themselves were never as tall as a man until the construction of the public art display known to locals as "Cornhenge."Completed in 1994 and officially...
View ArticleBronson Cave in Los Angeles, California
As you enter the mouth of the cavern and feel the air chill, you wonder if the number of movie stars you’ve seen performing in these very walls touched the same smooth rock you’re now bracing yourself...
View ArticleHollow Earth Monument in Hamilton, Ohio
While Jules Verne may have been the most famous writer to expound on the concept that the Earth is hollow, his famous book was explicitly a work of fiction. Early 1800's lecturer John Symmes Jr. wanted...
View ArticleHomero Ortega Workshop and Museum in Cuenca , Ecuador
Homero Ortega is a museum and store in Ecuador that is devoted exclusively to the lasting legacy of the famous (but incorrectly known) "Panama hat", or as they prefer to call it, the toquilla straw...
View ArticleDikteon Cave in Psyhro, Greece
In Greek myth, before there were gods, there were titans.The most notorious among them was Cronus, who was in the habit of eating his children immediately once they were born. That was until Rhea,...
View ArticleTrack 61 in New York, New York
Unlike other "abandoned" train stations along the New York City subway system, the infamous Track 61 is supposedly still in use as a secret escape train for president's visiting the city. Built along...
View ArticleCongressional Cemetery in Washington DC, United States
The Congressional Cemetery or Washington Parish Burial Ground is a historic yet active cemetery located at 1801 E Street, SE, in Washington, D.C., on the west bank of the Anacostia River. It is the...
View ArticleMormon Island in Folsom, California
Two months after the gold rush began with James Marshall’s discovery in Colma, three Mormon miners made the second major gold strike 25 miles east of Sacramento on the American River. Other prospectors...
View ArticleNorton Sales Inc. in North Hollywood, California
Picking through the piles of valves, gauges, and old school hydraulic equipment, you kick yourself for skipping that rocketry class you’d been meaning to take.You’ve managed to find everything you...
View ArticleMammoth Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota
Initially discovered by a construction worker and his son while they were looking to build on the land, the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota would prove to yield one of the largest deposits of...
View ArticleRedbird Reef in Slaughter Beach , Delaware
Once a New York subway car is taken out of service it gets stripped, decontaminated, shipped down the coast and dropped into the ocean. The underground transit cars then quickly become underwater...
View ArticleThe Warren's Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticutt
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren operated for decades as the preeminent voices in the believer community, and their strange career of ghost-hunting and demon-busting is on display in...
View ArticleGreen Vault in Dresden, Germany
Europe and possibly the world's largest collection of treasures, objects d'art, cabinets of curiosity, baroque contraptions, and generally royal weirdness is all held in Germany's Grünes Gewölbe or...
View ArticleKhatyn Memorial Complex in Logoisk , Belarus
The Khatyn Memorial Complex is built on the former site of Khatyn village, and represents the many hundreds of homesteads destroyed in the Khatyn and similar massacres during World War II.In January...
View ArticleCathedral Building in Oakland, California
Squeezed into the corner of the intersection between Broadway and Telegraph Ave, the gothic façade of the Flatiron-style Cathedral Building rises up 12 stories like an ornately detailed fin.Delicate...
View ArticleHuber Breaker in Ashley, Pennsylvania
An abandoned anthracite coal mine that was once at the forefront of American industry, Pennsylvania's Huber Breaker is a symbol of the country's industrial past that is in danger of being turned to...
View ArticleFort Matanzas National Monument in St. Augustine, Florida
Despite being located in Florida, Fort Matanzas was never used by the United States but was instead built by the Spanish out of crushed seashells.In 1562, the French Hugenots wanted to establish a base...
View ArticleWilkes-Barre Abandoned Train Station in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
The town of Wilkes-Barre, like many small mining settlements, fell into a deep depression when the nearby coal breaker shut down. However its single train station hung on as a cocktail bar until it too...
View ArticleSoutheast Lighthouse in Block Island, Rhode Island
Rising like a giant gingerbread house above the forbidding Mohegan Bluffs, Southeast Light stands, as its name implies, on the southeast corner of Block Island. The red brick structure is the only...
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