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Semuc Champey in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
Tucked away in the densely forested mountains of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala lies an idyllic limestone paradise that despite the grueling hours of off road forging it takes to get there is one of the most...
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The Former New Brighton Athletic Club in New York, New York
Judging from its swish-sounding name, the New Brighton Athletic Club brings to mind the sort of exclusive, private member's racquet clubs found in midtown Manhattan. In reality, it was one of the...
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Lyle Van Houten's Automotive Museum in Clarence, Missouri
Off an otherwise unremarkable exit on US Highway 36, in the town of Clarence, Missouri is what seems to be a working gas station from another time, perfectly preserved, complete with gleaming vintage...
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Birthplace of F. Scott Fitzgerald in Saint Paul, Minnesota
The multi-storied home at 481 Laurel Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is one of three sites in the city that is dedicated to the late, great author F. Scott Fitzgerald who penned such American literary...
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The Hidden Holocaust Memorial of Madison Park in New York, New York
The Appellate Division Courthouse in Madison Square is a highly ornate building.Designed at the height of the Beaux-arts movement by James Brown Lord in 1896, it is adorned with marble sculptures of...
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Alan Turing Memorial in Manchester, England
The famed Alan Turing was a man of many geniuses. From mathematics to cryptography to computer science, Turing was a visionary thinker in each field leaving a legacy that has had a part in most of our...
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The Church Brew Works in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania
Located in Pittsburgh's historic St. John the Baptist Church, a deconsecrated but still beautifully ornate building, The Church Brew Works has turned a former holy sanctuary into a hip brewery, only...
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The Old Farmers' Ball in Swannanoa, North Carolina
The Old Farmers' Ball began as a dance competition in the home of Bascom Lamar Lunsford, a native of Madison County, North Carolina who traveled through the mountains as a fruit tree salesman,...
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Noguchi Playscape in Atlanta, Georgia
Most art is meant not to be touched, and most playgrounds are meant to crawled all over so they don't immediately seem like a great combination but Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi's Playscapes...
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Godlee Observatory in Manchester, United Kingdom
Donated to the University of Manchester in 1902, the Godlee Observatory has lived through war, weather, and neglect despite being made of little more than wood and papier-mâché.The tiny, historic...
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Martense Lane Rock in Brooklyn, New York
Uprooted outside of an unrelated church, this innocuous boulder showed up one day outside the gates of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, moved their by persons trying to honor a 400 year old folktale.The...
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The Nutshell Pub in Suffolk , United Kingdom
Located on a picture perfect English street corner, the self-proclaimed "smallest pub in Britain" is a cozy little watering hole that was once home to museum of sorts that showcased all manner of...
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Mamertine Prison in Rome, Italy
While jails and prisons were not a common feature in classical Rome (as execution, exile, and forced labor were a bit more du jour) one ancient lock-up has survived down the ages and it is now said to...
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Rujm el-Hiri in Rujm el-Hiri, Golan Heights
One of the more mysterious archeological sites in the Golan Heights region, Rujm el-Hiri is a wide series of piled stone rings that scientists have not been able to definitively date or decode since...
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Petrified Fountain of Réotier in Réotier, France
Located in the small of beautiful French area known as Réotier there is a slowly trickling waterfall that has brought millennia of sediment out of the ground to form an alien rock formation known as...
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Plan de Phazy in Guillestre , France
Tucked away in the French Alps, the Plan de Phazy hot springs and their supposedly healing waters have been catering to all those willing to make the trek since time immemorial. The earliest accounts...
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The Head of The Goddess of Progress in San Francisco, California
Sitting in San Francisco's city hall is a giant bronze head that stares impassively at all who pass by her, rarely paying any notice, but at the time of her creation the head was part of a proud and...
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Victoria Arches in Manchester, United Kingdom
Visible from three of the bridges that cross the River Irwell in downtown Manchester, the bricked-up Victoria Arches (otherwise known as the Cathedral Steps) were once a part of a planned industrial...
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Greensted Church in Greensted- juxta- Ongar, England
The little chapel in England's Greensted-juxta-Ongar village looks like three buildings that have been conjoined across the years, but the central portion is not only the oldest wooden building in...
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Iron Zoo in Coalinga, California
Once numbering in the dozens, the painted pumping units collectively known as the Iron Zoo have slowly been disappearing with the downturn of the California oil industry, but a few remain to remind...
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