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The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts
The Christian Science Plaza is a 14-acre site that is home to the headquarters of the Church of Christian Science, founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879.The Plaza holds many buildings, the oldest being...
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Parkland Walk in London, United Kingdom
Where once a railroad line punched through the wilds of London's Haringey and Islington, a scenic walking path has taken its place and the crumbling, abandoned stations and tunnels are now home to...
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Imatrankoski in Imatra, Finland
Rushing through a shallow Finnish hollow the Imatrankoski rapids have been a popular tourist attraction for about as long as they have been known, but today, thanks to a massive power plant dam, the...
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The Gingerbread Castle in Franklin, New Jersey
The once candy-coated dreams of a small New Jersey amusement park can still be seen in the ruins of this fantastical fantasy castle. The Gingerbread Castle was originally a fairy tale themed amusement...
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Baldwin Street in Dunedin, New Zealand
Thanks to some blunt city planning Dunedin, New Zealand's residential Baldwin Street has become known as the world's steepest street, and it certainly seems like if there were a street that was any...
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Rotary Jail Museum in Crawfordsville, Indiana
There was a point in history when people were still trying to perfect the perfect cell in which to keep that wiliest of creatures: man. This quest for the perfect jail led to some odd, and often...
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Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant in Zwentendorf , Austria
For a brief moment in the 1970s it looked like the future of Austria's power production was going to be in a handful of massive nuclear plants, before the entire vision was put down by massive public...
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Kościuszko Mound in Kraków, Poland
The city of Kraków, Poland, is home to four man-made hills or mounds that honor some of the country's greatest leaders. One of the more recent mounds, the Kościuszko Mound, was specifically created to...
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Hobbiton, USA in Phillipsville, California
Located near the Avenue of the Giants in northern California, there was once a short nature walk that took visitors through the story of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit via crude cement tableaus of key...
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Plastinarium in Guben, Germany
With the popularity of the now ubiquitous Body World exhibits touring the world with their skinned and exploded figures in motion, it is little wonder that the inventor of the technique that made those...
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Diamondback Bridge in Tucson , Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, is a city with a devotion to public art, having spent millions on various projects around the city over the past couple of decades, but possibly the most monumental of these projects...
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Seamen's Bethel in New Bedford, Massachusetts
New Bedford's Seaman's Bethel was built to bring a little morality to the rowdy sailors and whalers that were flocking to the town in the early 1800s, although it wasn't until a century later that it...
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Ludlow Massacre Site in Ludlow, Colorado
The Ludow, Colorado Union Massacre of 1914 is not widely discussed in the modern day, but the site of the tragic event is still largely intact allowing any visitors to the site to revisit one of the...
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Cole Porter's Piano in New York, New York
The Waldorf-Astoria is rightly regarded as one of the world's great luxury hotels. A byword for New York glamour and opulence since it opened its gleaming art-deco doors in 1931, it has been home to...
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The Weathermen Townhouse Explosion in New York, New York
West 11th is one of Greenwich Village's most idyllic streets. Nestled in between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, Charles Merrill, co-founder of Merrill Lynch was so taken with it, he bought a Greek revival...
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Fremont Bridge in Seattle , Washington
Built back in 1917, Seattle's Fremont Bridge, which connects the neighborhoods of Fremont and Queen Anne, has grown from a busy utilitarian span that ranks as the most frequently opened drawbridge in...
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International Car Forest of the Last Church in Goldfield, Nevada
The dream project of two Nevada artists, the International Car Forest of the Last Church looks more akin to a druidic henge of junkers than any Christian chapel.The product of artists Chad Sorg and...
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Pompey's Pillar in Pompeys Pillar National Monument, Montana
Montana's somewhat confusingly named Pompey's Pillar is a towering natural stone that not only holds a great deal of American Indian petroglyphs, but also the clear cursive signature of William Clark,...
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Paint Mines Interpretive Park in Calhan, Colorado
Fantastical sandstone hoodoos, and other weird geological formations made of sand and colorful clay, brought ancient Native Americans to this spot as far back as 9,000 years ago to collect clay for...
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Jesse James Home Museum in St. Joseph , Missouri
This simple Missouri home went down in American history when the infamous Wild West bank robber Jesse James was gunned down inside, and today a museum to James' life and death is held inside, complete...
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