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Musical Stone of Gobustan
Musical Stone of GobustanResonant stone, that has been played since prehistoric timesThe Gobustan National Park is an otherworldly place. More than four hundred mud volcanoes are found within the area...
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Babi Besar's Abandoned Resort
Babi Besar's Abandoned ResortIsland, once a pirate hideout, now home to an abandoned resortBabi Besar Island is a small island (4km or 2.5 miles long) praised for its stunning coral reefs and marine...
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Fisgard Lighthouse
Fisgard LighthouseAn operating lighthouse from the 1860sAs the western-most province of Canada, British Columbia has a long and storied nautical history. As coastal communities grew with immigration...
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Fire Mountain Yanar Dağ
Fire Mountain Yanar DağMysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fireIn the 13th century, when Marco Polo visited the then-Persian city of Baku, he mentioned numerous mysterious flames...
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Hoosac Tunnel
Hoosac TunnelThe railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its constructionThe Hoosac Tunnel is a railway that burrows almost five miles through the Hoosac...
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Madise's Lost Cemetary
Madise's Lost CemetaryTombstones buried in overgrown grass mark the deceased occupants of this abandoned graveyard. If you ever find yourself driving from Paldiski to Madise in Estonia’s Harju County,...
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The Grand Lodge of France
The Grand Lodge of FranceOne of the oldest masonic museums in ParisThe Grande Loge de France, together with the Grand Orient de France, is one of the major masonic collections in French freemasonry....
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Betty and Barney Hill Memorials
Betty and Barney Hill MemorialsA gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction On the night of September 19 and on into the early morning of September...
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Moulton Mansion
Moulton MansionThe mansion and cenotaph of the New Hampshire FaustGeneral Jonathan Moulton was a veteran of various colonial wars, including the Revolutionary War, and a very wealthy man in the...
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The Manaca Ignaza Tower
The Manaca Ignaza TowerAn old slave lookout in Cuba's historic sugar cane fields.The Manaca Ignaza tower in Cuba’s Valle de los Ingenios was erected in 1750 in order to observe and control the slaves...
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Shah-i-Zinda Necropolis
Shah-i-Zinda NecropolisThe Avenue of Mausolea, a series of grand palatial tombsShah-I-Zinda is one of the oldest and longest-running examples of a continually constructed historic site in the world....
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Grave of Mercy Brown
Grave of Mercy BrownThe final resting place of New England's last vampireThe case of Mercy Lena Brown, a 19-year-old resident of the town of Exeter, was the last known instance in the state of Rhode...
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Jennings Hall
Jennings HallThe building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House"Born and raised in California and educated in New York, horror author Shirley Jackson moved to North Bennington,...
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Museum of Miniature Books
Museum of Miniature BooksA gigantic collection of teeny, tiny booksIn the old city of Baku resides the only museum in the world dedicated to miniature editions of books. The collection of books inside...
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Naftalan Clinic
Naftalan ClinicIn oil-rich Azerbaijan, people bathe in the black stuff... literallyIn the James Bond film “Quantum of Solace“ (2008), Gemma Arterton is being killed by getting covered in crude oil. In...
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Flower, Bird, Fish & Insect Market
Flower, Bird, Fish & Insect MarketOne of China's weirdest fast-fading traditional marketplaces. Shanghai epitomizes high-falutin internationalism, while simultaneously adhering to Chinese...
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Cocoanut Grove Fire Plaque
Cocoanut Grove Fire PlaqueA plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in historyOn the evening of November 29th, 1942, a night club in Boston called the Cocoanut...
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Crown Point Bridge
Crown Point BridgeLake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".The 2000 ghost flick "What Lies Beneath" stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison...
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Jewett City Vampires
Jewett City VampiresThe graves of a Connecticut family thought to be plagued by a vampireIn the first half of the 19th century, Henry and Lucy Ray of Jewett City had a comfortably-sized family of five...
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The Yanar Bulag Fire Spring
The Yanar Bulag Fire SpringSpring that emits water and fire at the same time is said to have remedial properties, and sparked its own religionThe fire spring Yanar Bulag (which literally translates to...
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