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The Star Tavern in Belgravia, London
If the walls of the Star Tavern could talk, they would’ve been subpoenaed long ago. The Great Train Robbery, the Profumo affair, and countless other shady glories hatched in what is now a well-to-do...
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Cottage Plantation in Saint Francisville, Louisiana
Stepping onto the Cottage Plantation feels like a leap into some antebellum episode of the Twilight Zone. Its most extraordinary feature is its intactness, retaining all of its original land, most of...
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World's Largest Rocking Chair in Cuba, Missouri
For an item as goofy as the world's largest rocking chair it is fitting that it was installed on April Fool's Day, but it is so big that safety concerns became a deadly serious issue. Created in 2008,...
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Cimetière du Champdé in Châteaudun, France
The ghostly ruins of the 16th-century Notre-Dame-du-Champdé church stand watch over the entrance to the 19th-century Cimetière du Champdé where thousands of bodies are buried in overfull graves.A...
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Snake Village in Lệ Mật, Vietnam
Anyone looking for a morally questionable and slightly horrifying bit of adventurous dining need look no further than the tiny Hanoi village of Lệ Mật, where live snakes are gutted before your very...
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The Swiss Village in Newport, Rhode Island
A railroad tycoon’s summer estate now houses a cyroroom full of liquid nitrogen tanks and specimens from rare livestock breeds.In the early 20th century, railroad magnate Arthur Curtiss James...
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Nottoway Plantation House in White Castle, Louisiana
A century ago, traveling down the Mississippi River, your eyes would be greeted by one of the greatest spectacles ever produced on American soil. As described in Harnett T. Kane's book, Plantation...
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Cathedral of Mren in Kars, Turkey
Sitting on the site of the medieval settlement of Mren, on what is now a remote spot near Turkey's border with Armenia, the Cathedral of Mren is a slowly eroding chapel that has stood for over a...
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May Natural History Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado
A giant roadside beetle and RV park belie the world-class quality of this Colorado Springs bug museum's collection.Turning off of Colorado Highway 115 at the oversized model of the Giant West Indian...
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Vieques Military Bunkers in Vieques, Puerto Rico
During World War II the small island of Vieques was nearly completely overtaken by American naval forces who occupied either end of the narrow stretch of land, and today the hidden bunkers they built...
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Starr Kempf's Kinetic Sculptures in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Troubled sculptor Starr Kempf took his own life in 1995, but his towering works of moving, gleaming metal are still on display on the lawn of his former home -- after having a troubled life of their...
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The Chase Vault in Oistins, Barbados
The Chase Vault located in the Barbados cemetery of the Christ Church Parish is a fairly unremarkable semi-sunken tomb save for the repeated stories of the coffins inside being thrown around around by...
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Oregon Vortex in Gold Hill, Oregon
Following in the proud footsteps of many mystery houses and gravity hills, the Oregon Vortex is a delightfully kitschy pit stop where optical illusions make it seem like the laws of physics no longer...
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Japanese Balloon Bomb Memorial in Bly, Oregon
During the final months of World War II, Japan developed a new weapon that it hoped would create psychological terror, death, and destruction within the continental United States, and while those lofty...
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The Round Tower of Glendalough in Glendalough, Ireland
Situated in the Wicklow Mountains south of Dublin, Glendalough is home to the ruins of a monastery founded in the 6th century by St. Kevin.Scattered among two lakes and lush woods are numerous...
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The Three Dikgosi in Gaborone, Botswana
Standing proudly in a Botswana square, the trio of massive bronze figures known as the Three Dikgosi forever look out across the country whose independence they helped maintain. In 1885 three tribal...
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John Paul Jones Crypt in Annapolis, Maryland
The father of America's Navy is well known for shouting the famous phrase, "I have not yet begun to fight," in response to a request for his surrender at the Battle of Flamborough Head during the...
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Sant'Agata de' Goti in Sant'Agata de' Goti, Italy
Sitting on a raised bluff near the "ankle" of the Italian boot, the historic town of Sant'Agata de' Goti ends in a sheer drop into a river gorge, creating a long, flat wall as though the builders hit...
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Cemi Museum in Jayuya, Puerto Rico
In a slightly meta move, the Cemi Museum in the mountains of central Puerto Rico takes the shape of a cemi, the very thing the structure is there to remember. To the pre-Columbian Taino Indians of...
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Alex Raskin Antiques in Savannah, Georgia
If the walls of the Noble Hardee Mansion could talk, they’d have to speak up to be heard over the hoard of antiques jostling for attention in their rooms. Billing itself as the “last unrestored grand...
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