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Love Letter Murals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“Love Letter” is a series of 50 rooftop murals that can be viewed from the elevated train platform of the Market-Frankford line in West Philadelphia.This project was a collaboration of the Philadelphia...
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Dad O'Rourke's Bench in Mill Valley, California
Originally a simple scenic lookout spot, the serene resting spot known as Dad O'Rourke's Bench is now a permanent testament to the man who made it his goal to share the location's singular beauty with...
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Boh Tea Plantation and Factory in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
The largest tea plantation in the south of Asia is a massive spread of acres that supplies almost all of the tea for the not inconsiderable demand in the surrounding countries and is loaded with a...
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Crown Liquor Saloon in Belfast, Ireland
Originally a Victorian "gin palace" where the fancy and austere would go for a tipple, the Crown Liquor Saloon (or simply, "The Crown") has been restored and preserved in its ornate and elegant state...
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John Dillinger's Grave in Indianapolis, Indiana
Murderous bank robber and rakish criminal John Dillinger was buried in a family plot in Indiana's Crown Hill Cemetery but true to his thieving past, the threat of his grave being robbed led to near...
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Kastania's Cave in Kato Kastania, Greece
At the beginning of the last century, Kostas Stivaktas would sit in his fields near Saint Andrew's church, watching bees entering a crack in the rocks, upon leaving it they seemed to him...
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The Ruins in Indianapolis, Indiana
Located in Indianapolis' Holliday Park, the simply-named stone features known as The Ruins are not actually some ancient collection of statuary, but are instead the remains of a demolished New York...
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Climax, Colorado in Leadville, Colorado
Next to a molybdenum mine in the Fremont Pass among the Colorado Rockies was the highest human settlement in the United States at 11,360 feet above sea level. Titilatingly known as Climax, Colorado,...
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Mount Elbert in San Isabel National Forest, Colorado
The highest point in Colorado and the Rocky Mountains, Mount Elbert at 14,440 feet above sea level, can be a straightforward hike. Just be aware of altitude sickness and afternoon lightning, and maybe...
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Wälderhaus in Hamburg, Germany
Located in the center of a neighborhood built specifically to showcase new developments in sustainable and ecological architecture, Hamburg's completely wooden Wälderhaus ("Forest House") is a recent...
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Maison de Serge Gainsbourg in Paris, France
French singer, songwriter, actor, author, and all around iconoclast Serge Gainsbourg may have died in 1991, but the culture of decadence and poetic promiscuity he cultivated around himself lives on in...
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Hell, Michigan in Hell, Michigan
Located near the college town of Ann Arbor in southeast Michigan, Hell is a fairly average township with an odd name, a name it has held since 1841.There are a number of theories as to how the town...
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Nova Cidade de Kilamba in Nova Cidade de Kilamba, Angola
Like some of the sprawling modern ghost towns in China proper, Angola's newly built housing development Nova Cidade de Kilamba, funded by China in exchange for oil, is an untouched settlement that is...
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World's Largest Cross in Effingham, Illinois
Towering above the intersection of Interstates 57 and 70 in southern Illinois, the Cross At The Crossroads, a crucifix nearly 200 feet tall and made with 180 tons of steel is seen by over 50,000...
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The Golden Gal of Old Madison Square Garden in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
There have been four renditions of New York's Madison Square Garden; the grandest and most opulent of which, was its second. Designed by Manhattan's premier architect and spoiler of chorus line girls,...
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Weiße Rose Pavement Memorial in Munich, Germany
It's not difficult to find vestiges of Third Reich history in Munich - after all, the city served as the NSDAP's official and ideological stronghold for years leading up to World War II. However,...
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Maroon Bells in Aspen, Colorado
Billed as the most photographed mountains in the Rockies, many visitors come to Aspen to take their pictures. However, climbers, local media, and even the US Forest Service know these mountains as the...
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Ypsilanti Water Tower in Ypsilanti, Michigan
Dominating the city's landscape, Ypsilanti, Michigan's centrally located water tower was actually named "the most phallic building in the world" by a magazine and the locals would seem to agree.The...
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Le Passe-Muraille in Paris, France
The Passe-Muraille, or "Passer through Walls" is an homage to a famous work of French literature by the same name which immortalizes the novel's tragic finale wherein a man with the ability to phase...
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Ernie Harwell Park in Detroit, Michigan
As new professional baseball stadiums continue to get larger and more dazzling in their opulence - featuring hi-def laser video boards the size of entire buildings, concourses that double as amusement...
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