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Trift Bridge in Gadmen, Switzerland
Stretching over an arm of Lake Triftsee (itself a product of the Trift glacier), hidden among the high Swiss Alps, the Trift Bridge is a thin modern suspension bridge that looks like it could blow over...
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Site of 1964 World Water Speed Record in Dumbleyung , Australia
Dumbleyung is a small farming community that gained worldwide interest in 1964 when Donald Campbell broke the world water speed record on Dumbleyung Lake at 276.33 mph (444.71 km/h).Campbell was known...
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Kelenföld Power Station in Budapest, Hungary
When it originally opened in 1914, the Kelenföld Power Station was one of the most advanced power centers in all of Europe, however it will likely be better remembered for its ornate Art Deco...
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Lam Tsuen Wishing Trees in Lam Tsuen, Hong Kong
The Lam Tsuen area of Hong Kong has been inhabited for over 700 years and its continued survival can be partly attributed to the famed Wishing Trees located in Tin Hau Temple which are said to grant...
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Harvard Bridge in Boston , Massachusetts
This bridge across the Charles River from Boston to Cambridge is notorious not for how it was constructed or where it connects, but how it was measured by an MIT fraternity for a hazing ritual.In 1958,...
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Giant Ram in Wagin, Australia
Built in 1985, Wagin's Giant Ram is part of the the network of Big Things across Australia's rural and regional areas, although unlike many of the country's whimsical giants, this ram is anatomically...
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Leg-In-Boot Square in Vancouver, Canada
Looking about as innocuous as can be, Leg-In-Boot Square in Vancouver, British Colombia gets its name from a century old mystery that the police at the time dealt with in the laziest and likely the...
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Mansudae Art Studio Gallery in Beijing , China
Located in a repurposed industrial area of Beijing, China, the Mansudae Art Studio Gallery displays exclusively North Korean works of art that are produced under factory-like conditions in their home...
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Monument to African dictator Laurent Kabila in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic...
Towering in the middle of a traffic circle in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a roughly twenty five foot tall statue of a bald headed, dour looking, Laurent Kabila, the former despotic...
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Happy Island in Union Island , Saint Vincent and The Grenadines
Located just off the shallow coast of Union Island in the Grenadines is the home of Janti Ramage, a local visionary who built the tiny outpost into a singular bar sitting on a foundation of scavenged...
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Williwood Sign in Williwood, Curaçao
Sint Willibrordus was once just a nice, if little known, village 12 miles northwest of Willemstad, the capitol of Curaçao, but the locals, tired of being overlooked, have now rebranded their small town...
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Bayernhof Music Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A lighting executive's Bavarian-inspired mansion in the north of Pittsburgh has become a museum hosting his rare collection of automatic musical instruments.Charles B. "Chuck" Brown III collected...
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Mopion in Union Island , Saint Vincent and The Grenadines
Supposedly the smallest island in the Caribbean, Mopion is more of a cay (a low inlet mainly composed of coral or sand) and its size depends on the tides, but its iconic umbrella is never quite...
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George Mackenzie's Mausoleum in Edinburgh, Scotland
In the 17th century, Scotland was going through an intense religious struggle, started by King Charles introducing the Common Book of Prayer and declaring all opposition to the book an act of treason...
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Point Lookout State Park in Scotland, Maryland
Point Lookout is the southernmost place on Maryland's western shore, and is now the site of a placid park dotted with monuments, but during the Civil War it was the site of one of the largest and...
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Lion of Kea in Kéa, Greece
Lounging near a Grecian hilltop, the ancient stone Lion of Kea is remarkable not only for its relatively good condition, but also for its oddly sunny demeanor. Carved sometime prior to 600 BCE, the...
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House of Slaves in Gorée Island, Senegal
The transatlantic slave trade is largely consigned to public consciousness and history textbooks, but there exists many places where the full force of humanity's cruelty can still be heartbreakingly...
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National Gas Museum in Leicester, England
Housed in the gatehouse of a former Victorian gasworks, Britain's Natural Gas Museum collects the artifacts and machinery of the world's rich history of gas power. Open since 1977, the Natural Gas...
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Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum in Paola, Malta
A labyrinthian early neolithic catacomb complex and the burial ground of about... 7000 bodies or so.Inhabitants of the small and arid island nation Malta have been digging cisterns for water storage...
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Carrie Furnaces in Rankin, Pennsylvania
In Pittsburgh's steel-making heyday, Carrie Furnaces smelted over 1,000 tons of iron per day for local mills. Now, after shutting down in 1982, all that remains of the site is a rusting 92-foot tall...
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