The Vault in Bow Valley Wildland Provincial Park, Canada
Inside the Bow Flats Natural area, just off the Trans-Canada Highway is a large tunnel carved into the north facing slope of Mt. McGillivray's solid limestone.The tunnel leads into the mountain to two...
View ArticleMezyad Fort in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates have no shortage of desert fortresses, most of which are recently renovated and designed to cater for the huge swath of tourists who visit every year. But for those with a more...
View ArticleTimbac Mummy Caves in Kabayan , Philippines
Hidden far off the beaten in the northern Philippines, the native Ibaloi community of Kabayan has been hiking up to the nearby Timbac caves to inter their dead for hundreds of years, but now the ever...
View ArticleChurch of St. Luke, Liverpool in Liverpool, England
Built in the early 1800's in an ornate architectural style, the Church of St. Luke was to be a tranquil gem in the heart of Liverpool until it was nearly destroyed during the World War II Liverpool...
View ArticleThe Wreck of the Mary D. Hume in Gold Beach, Oregon
With 97 years of active service, The Mary D. Hume still holds the record for longest serving vessel of the Pacific Coast, and her retirement continues to this day as she slowly rots away near an Oregon...
View ArticleFort Saint Pieter in Maastricht, Netherlands
Constructed in the 18th century to defend the strategically important city of Maastricht in the Netherlands, the Fort Saint Pieter is a fantastical looking hexagonal construction full of tunnels and...
View ArticleSagano Bamboo Forest in Kyoto, Japan
Growing tall on the edges of Kyoto, the Sagano Bamboo Forest is a once tranquil nature spot that is now a series of tourist-packed pathways, but if one can escape the sounds of camera shutters and...
View ArticleAvenue of the Baobabs in Menabe , Madagascar
The dirt road linking Morondava and Belo Tsiribihina in Madagascar is framed by dozens of rare and ancient baobab trees creating a setting so beautiful and unique that it may become the country's first...
View ArticleUrsula Island in Palawan, Philippines
A bird sanctuary with pristine white sand and not a beach resort in sight, Ursula Island is a small island located offshore from the municipality of Bataraza, in the Philippines that invites you to its...
View ArticleTakkoku no Iwaya Bishamondo in Hiraizumi, Japan
Accented by the northernmost Japanese Buddha image, the Takkoku no Iwaya Bishamondo temple was built over a thousand years ago on the site of a warlord's slave pen.At the beginning of the 9th century,...
View ArticleThe Fence in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Carnegie Mellon University students painted a fence for 70 years, with the Guinness Book of World Records calling it "the most painted object in the world" with six inches of paint covering it. It...
View ArticlePar-King in Lincolnshire, Illinois
Between the 1950's kitsch and elaborate skill shot obstacles across the pair of courses in Illinois' Par-King it has earned its title as the "World's Most Unusual Golf Course."The entertaining...
View ArticleSean's Bar in Athlone, Ireland
Sitting in a traditional Irish neighborhood on the bank of the River Shannon, Sean's Bar is a quintessential Irish public house which makes sense as it predates all of them, and maybe even every bar...
View ArticleClayton Tunnel North Portal in Hassocks, West Sussex
Nestled above a railway tunnel, built into the side of the South Down hills, is an imposing Gothic folly evocatively referred to as Clayton Tunnel North Portal. Originally constructed in 1841, the...
View ArticleLinger Eatuary in Denver, Colorado
From historic mortuary to ultra-cool eatery, Denver's Linger Eatuary has made quite the transition during its almost century in existence. The hip and usually-packed Denver restaurant Linger is as open...
View ArticleGjirokaster Castle in Gjirokaster, Albania
Looming over the Albanian town of Gjirokaster, the castle that was gradually built by hundreds of years of despots and dictators now houses the aging reminders of their World War resistance to Western...
View ArticleMilton Keynes Peace Pagoda in Milton Keynes , United Kingdom
Although a somewhat unlikely location in the English of Willen Lake North in Milton Keynes, is the location of the first peace pagoda to be built in the Western world.A peace pagoda is a Buddhist...
View ArticleHerodium in Tall Furaydis, Israel
Built some time around 40 BCE, the hilltop palace known as Herodium was established by the biblical king Herod after he proved victorious against the local forces of the time.Herod was known as one of...
View ArticleCheyenne Mountain Nuclear Bunker in El Paso County , Colorado
Extending deep into a Colorado mountainside, the Cheyenne Mountain Nuclear Bunker may be the most recognizable semi-secret base in American history thanks to its appearances on both the big and small...
View ArticleCrystals of Refrain in Aghtsk, Armenia
Created by Geographer-at-Large Eames Demetrios, Kcymaerxthaere is a "parallel universe that intersects with much of our linear Earth, but with different stories, creatures, peoples, even laws of...
View Article