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The Cable Cars of Chiatura in Chiatura, Georgia

The city of Chiatura, Georgia was founded among otherwise uninvitingly steep valleys and deep gorges thanks to a healthy vein of manganese that was ripe for the mining. However the treacherous terrain...

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The Fitzgeralds' Gravesite in Rockville, Maryland

Famed author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his fabulous wife Zelda were lived opulent lives of wine and roses before falling to respectively tragic ends as though they were characters right out of one of...

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Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon

The former blimp hanger that now houses the Tillamook Air Museum is known as likely the largest wooden building in the world, and is currently home to a huge private collection of rare and restored...

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Kaufmann's Clock in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A century-old landmark timepiece in downtown Pittsburgh known as Kaufmann's Clock has been acting as a meet-up spot for everything from weddings to kiss offs down its long, brass history.An ornate...

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Mentone Egg in Mentone, Indiana

Balanced on the tapered end of its elliptical surface, the Mentone Egg is a bizarre monument that honors not only the town's rich history egg production but also claims to be the largest egg in the...

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Kloster Allerheiligen in Oppenau, Germany

Deep inside Germany's Black Forest, are the ruins of Kloster Allerheiligen, the Monastery of All Saints, which has been burnt time and again by lightning and fire but still exists today as a haunting...

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Caos Bar & Antiguidades in São Paulo, Brazil

Brazil's Caos Bar & Antiguidades truly deserves its name, offering a chaotic explosion of vintage stuff literally crammed into every space from the floor to the ceiling.Only a few short years ago...

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The Pinnacles of Gunung Mulu in Sarawak, Malaysia

High atop the Malaysian mountain Gunung Mulu is an impressive alien landscape made up of sharp rock spires that rise up out of the surrounding jungle like spikes of angry earth. The climb to the...

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Holmes Medical Museum in Foley, Alabama

While it might not be the largest or most diverse medical museum in the world, the Holmes Medical Museum in Foley, Alabama uses its humble space to celebrate the sterile, slightly frightening history...

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The Mail Rail in London, United Kingdom

Running beneath the feet of unsuspecting Londoners is an ever-clanging railway that quietly (at least on the surface) secrets parcels, missives, and other mail from one sorting station to another. This...

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The Baths in Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands

Strewn about a sun-drenched beach on Virgin Gorda Island are a number of massive boulders known collectively as "The Baths," and hidden around and beneath these titanic rocks are a number of pools and...

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Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden

200 kilometers above the Arctic Circle in Sweden, about 17 kilometres from Kiruna, is a little village of Jukkasjarvi where dogs nearly out number the humans, but for a few months each year it becomes...

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Mendenhall Ice Caves in Juneau, Alaska

In few places can you experience every stage of the water cycle at once. But there's magic in the Mendenhall Ice Caves, where water runs over rocks under blue ceilings inside a partially hollow...

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Aurora Ice Museum in Fairbanks, Alaska

Located at the Chena Hot Springs Resort, the Aurora Ice Museum is the world's largest year-round ice environment.You may be wondering just what this means exactly – it means jousting knights, polar...

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South Pole Ice Tunnels in Antarctica

Deep below one of the world’s most remote outposts, a network of tunnels cut into the ice has come to house “shrines” dedicated to both the odd, and the profound.Founded as a small research base at the...

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The Snow Tomb of Captain Robert Falcon Scott in Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica

While Sir Ernest Shackleton is often heralded as the hero of polar exploration, he had many contemporaries, among them British naval captain Robert Falcon Scott, who along with four of his men is still...

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Hôtel de Glace in STE-CATHERINE-DE-LA-J-CARTIER, Canada

Comprised of 15,000 tons of snow and 500,000 tons of ice, the Hôtel de Glace is a massive undertaking, yet each spring it completely disappears.With only a four-month lifespan, the Ice Hotel takes a...

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Klein Curaçao in Klein Curaçao, Curaçao

After two hours sailing, bearing southeast from the old Dutch Caribbean outpost of Curaçao, travelers can find an abandoned island.Called Klein Curaçao (Dutch for "little"), it is a ghostly island that...

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Beit ed-Dine Palace in Beit Al Dine, Lebanon

When first laying eyes on Beit ed-Dine Palace its easy to see why it is seen as one of Lebanon's greatest cultural treasures with its elaborate architecture, historic mosaics, and priceless...

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Berchtesgaden Salt Mine in Berchtesgaden, Germany

The lovely German town of Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps has gained much of its wealth over the years by exploiting the local salt mine which acted as the backbone of the town's economy, and in...

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