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Ambohimanga Main Gate
Ambohimanga Main GateGiant disc-shaped gate took 20 men to close off this city in MadagascarIn the 18th century, Ambohimanga was a town that needed to protect its royal family. Shielded naturally by...
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Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park and Nature Reserve
Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park and Nature ReserveFabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlifeThe word tsingy is indigenous to the Malagasy language as a description of the badlands of...
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Hotel Quinta Real
Hotel Quinta RealHotel designed around a 16th century Mexican bullringOn your next trip to Zacatecas, plan your wardrobe carefully. If you're planning to stay at the Hotel Quinta Real, it would...
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Appalachian Trail Museum
Appalachian Trail MuseumA museum dedicated to the history and joys of hiking the trail, and your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice creamLocated in the middle of the Appalachian Trail, this...
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Ganvie Lake Village
Ganvie Lake VillageAfrica's Venice on stilts In colonial Brazil, runaway slaves and free natives formed communities deep within the Amazon as a means of escaping the brutality of Portuguese slavery. A...
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Taos Pueblo
Taos PuebloMulti-storied adobe home continuously inhabited for 1000 yearsAlthough the Taos Pueblo is open to the public and has been studied extensively, much of the history of the Pueblo remains a...
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Squaw Rock
Squaw RockLandmark dedicated to the plight of the American Indian, offensive in the 21st centuryWhen Henry Church carved Squaw Rock in 1885, he was a progressive thinker who believed the story of the...
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Mel's Hole
Mel's HoleLegendary, mysterious, nonexistent pit near Ellensberg, Washington15 years ago, a strange man named Mel Waters called in to the Art Bell radio program, claiming he had discovered a mysterious...
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Welwitschia
WelwitschiaBizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib DesertStretching through Angola and Namibia on the southwest coast of Africa, the Namib Desert gets less than a half inch of...
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Memento-Mori Hamsterley Brass
Memento-Mori Hamsterley BrassRare and wonderfully wormy cadaver art captured in brass for centuriesBefore Ralph Hamsterley died in 1518, he commissioned five brass memorial plaques in his own honor,...
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The Pig Museum
The Pig MuseumAn old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifactsA lot of people on farms don't name their livestock for fear of getting too attached. After years of being on the...
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Carriolu Miniature Village
Carriolu Miniature VillageA miniature Corsican village built out of pebblesIn 1997 Jean-Claude Marchi was just an average cheese maker who began to nourish an obsession. Luckily for everyone, his...
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Taródi Vár
Taródi Vár "Medieval" castle built in the mid-20th century by one familyIt's not uncommon to find the once-great medieval castles of Europe crumbling under the weight of invasion, weather and time. In...
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Armenian Alphabet Monument
Armenian Alphabet MonumentGiant stone letters dedicated to the founder of Armenia's alphabetIn 2005, the Armenian alphabet celebrated its 1600th birthday. In commemoration, it was given a gift of 39...
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Disneyland's Club 33
Disneyland's Club 33The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite Deep in Adventureland and down a quiet street in the New Orleans sector of the park, Club 33 is tucked...
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Laguna Colorada
Laguna ColoradaRed lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingosSomewhere around 14,000 feet above sea level is Laguna Colorada, Bolivia's stunning white-speckled, red lake. Part of...
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Cairo's City of the Dead
Cairo's City of the DeadIn Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are deadJust outside of Cairo, this City of the Dead used to house only corpses dating back to the 7th century. Created as...
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Tristan da Cunha
Tristan da CunhaThe world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcanoWhen your closest neighbor is 1800 miles away, you know you're living in a pretty remote place. Actually, you know...
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Jack Browns Seaplane Base
Jack Browns Seaplane BaseThe world's busiest seaplane baseJack Brown's Seaplane Base is not just a tiny and incredibly busy airport. It is also a monument to a man who believed that every person should...
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Masrur Temple
Masrur Temple15 monolithic temples emulate an eroding sand castleIntricately carved from one single piece of sandstone, almost nothing is known about the Masrur Temples. Besides conjecture and legend,...
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