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Children's Fairyland in Oakland, CA
Once upon a time, almost 65 years ago, one of the first storybook theme parks in America was created to provide a tangible world of fairytale settings, catering to almost exclusively to small children...
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Cotton Belt Freight Depot in St. Louis, Missouri
Centered within a labyrinth of aged factories, the Cotton Belt is a gritty, but beautiful monument to St. Louis' industrial history. The Cotton Belt Freight Depot was a key link in a cotton trade route...
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William McKinley Memorial in Canton, Ohio
Ohio is home to more presidents that died in office than any other state - Harrison, Harding, Garfield, and of course, our 25th POTUS, William McKinley.McKinley's tomb is an elegant monument at the top...
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Hals Whale Jaws in Hals, Denmark
In the small town of Hals, Denmark there are two tall tall bones standing on one end of the town square. The bones, which once belonged to a massive Blue Whale, let visitors literally walk into a...
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REACH: New York in New York, New York
Camouflaged as an only slightly odd portion of New York City's 34th Street subway station, is an unusual pair of musical instruments.You probably won't see them unless you know where to look. There's...
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Paint Rock in Hot Spring, North Carolina
Located about six miles from Hot Springs, North Carolina, Paint Rock is considered North Carolina’s best pictograph. Estimated to be 5,000 years old, Paint Rock has been a landmark for natives and...
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BonBon Land in Holmegaard, Denmark
In Denmark, on the island of Zealand, a 45-minute drive from Copenhagen, lies a disgusting and magical world every family should experience. It began as BonBon, a candy factory in Home-Olstrup that...
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Stompie: the Mandela Way T-34 Tank in London, United Kingdom
Abandoned since 1995, the Mandela Way T-34 Tank (or "Stompie," as it has been affectionately nicknamed) is a strange war relic that is the product not of a national conflict, but of a fight between a...
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Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice in London, England
There are a number of memorials to heroes around the world, but few actually tell their tales of bravery and selflessness. London's Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice fixes that problem by creating a...
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Rutland Prison Camp in Rutland, Massachusetts
Nestled within Massachusetts' Rutland State Park are the ruins of an old prison complex where drunkards would be put to work growing potatoes for more hardened criminals.The prison was built in 1903 to...
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Livonian Wolves at the Leaping Wall in Chicago, Illinois
On a residential block in Chicago's South Loop neighborhood, a small park features an unusual sculpture depicting three wolves leaning against a stone wall. One is reading a book as a raven looks over...
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The Fox Tower at Dongbianmen in Dongcheng, China
The Fox Tower in Beijing, China has been said to be haunted from pretty much the moment it was founded in 1564. Initially the tower was said to be inhabited by deadly fox spirits, but by the 20th...
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The Mississippi River Basin Model in Jackson, Mississippi
In the 1940s, before computers were up to the task, when engineers needed needed to model a complex system, they would do just that, literally "modeling it," by building amazingly elaborate scale...
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Dongyue Temple in Beijing, China
You know what happens when you betray the secrets of your feudal lord? You get your ghostly tongue sawed off in the afterlife by a finely muscled red boar demon, that's what.Beijing's Dongyue Temple is...
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Einstein's Sink in Leiden, Netherlands
Sitting, as it has for almost a century, in a large physics hall, now at Leiden University in The Netherlands, the basin known as the Einstein Sink has continually kept the hands of science clean...
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William McKinley Assassination Plaque in Buffalo, United States
The sites where Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy were assassinated remain venerated places where people talk in hushed whispers and time appears to stand still. In contrast, only a small...
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Jefferson Davis Capture Site in Fitzgerald, Georgia
Most people believe the American Civil War ended on April 9, 1865 when Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Army Commander Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. In reality,...
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Seljavallalaug in Skogar, Iceland
Going for a swim is probably not the first thing visitors to Iceland think to do, but seeing the lovely, historic Seljavallalaug pool might change their minds. Built in 1923, Seljavallalaug may be the...
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Chisinau State Circus in Chişinău, Moldova
An abandoned Communist-era circus in Moldova, the poorest country in Europe, is once again coming to life. The Chişinău State Circus was officially opened in 1981 and was, at the time, a top circus...
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Herrenchiemsee Neues Schloss in Chiemsee, Germany
Bavaria's King Ludwig II loved building castles more than most things in life, so in 1873 he acquired Herreninsel island with the purpose of executing his most elaborate fantasy to date.Working with a...
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