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Gardens of Ninfa in Ninfa, Italy
What now stands as an enchanting English garden in the Roman countryside, was once a small agricultural town founded under the Roman Empire, passed through the ages from Pope Pasquale II in the 12th...
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Church of San Giorgio in Monselice, Italy
Monselice, so called since Roman times for its flint quarries (then called Mons Silicis), is a perfect day trip from Venice, reachable in an hour by train from Venice’s Santa Lucia train station.While...
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ATLAS-I in Albuquerque, New Mexico
ATLAS-I is world's largest wooden structure, but what it was used for is even more impressive.Built between 1972 and 1980 on Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the ATLAS-I facility was...
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Kabukicho Robot Restaurant in Tokyo , Japan
Robotic fantasy women. From Metropolis to Blade Runner, the idea of creating a humanoid female doppleganger has been a obsessive - and mainly male - fantasy since Pygmalion made his sexy statue in...
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Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal, Canada
The Notre Dame Basilica is anything but ordinary, and credit for its splendor goes to the only person buried in its crypt - the man who built it.In 1824, the Montreal flock had outgrown its church, and...
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Kate Blood Gravestone in Appleton, United Sates
The creepy setting on the river in one of Appleton's oldest cemeteries is just the beginning of the unsettling story behind this grave.The headstone marks the final resting place of Kate Blood. Many...
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Touchstone Wildlife and Art Museum in Haughton, Louisiana
Located near Shreveport, Louisiana, the Touchstone Wildlife and Art Museum is a family-owned roadside attraction that's been delighting the travelers of U.S. 80 since 1981.Displaying a curious mix-up...
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Biosphere of Montreal in Montreal, Canada
As their contribution to Montreal's 1967 World's Fair Exposition the United States government commissioned architect, scientist, and well known genius Buckminster Fuller to design a pavilion for the...
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Nazino Island in Russia
Of the 6,200 people who arrived on Nazino Island in 1933, only 2,200 survived, and only 200 left not completely frail. Everyone who lived through their time on the remote Siberian island was burdened...
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International Sea Glass Museum in Fort Bragg, California
What appears to be a kitschy sea glass gift shop from the entryway is actually home to the International Sea Glass museum founded in 2009 by retired sea captain Cass Forrington. Fort Bragg began...
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Canadian Potato Museum in O'Leary, Canada
Frankly, the name "Canadian Potato Museum" does not inspire an enormous amount of excitement.Canada and potatoes, are not what most would people thrilling subjects. In fact, despite effusive exhibit...
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Court of Mysteries in Santa Cruz, California
There are two reasons to built your house in the dead of night illuminated only by a small lantern and the moon. Reason one: You are a believer in Eastern mythology and Occult spiritualism building a...
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The Shady Dell in Bisbee, AZ
While Route 66 gets all the attention, there is another once famous interstate which runs from San Francisco, California to Teaneck, New Jersey that is less well known. The second-longest Interstate...
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Museum in New York City, NY
Museum is a curated display of artifacts housed in a freight elevator.Currently in their second season, this tiny space features rotating and permanent collections, a cafe, and a gift shop....
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Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan
"Dear friends, known and unknown to me, my dear compatriots and all people of the world! Within minutes from now, a mighty Soviet rocket will boost my ship into the vastness of outer space. What I want...
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Monument to the Conquerors of Space in Moscow, Russia
Looking at the towering monument, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the space race is still very much alive. Rising on a 350-foot high plume of smoke and condensation, the Monument to the Conquerors...
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Star City in Zvyozdny Gorodok, Russia
Russia's Star City is so named not because it is home to movie stars or pop stars, but to cosmonauts, the heroes of the Soviet and Russian space programs.Today Star City is a sort of space explorer's...
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RKK Energiya Museum in Korolev, Russia
By 1961, mankind had become completely consumed with the idea of space flight. Yet so many of its grandest moments were already familiar.The muted rumble of rocket engines firing. The otherworldly site...
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Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow, Russia
The Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics opened on April 10, 1981 to mark 20 years since Yuri Gagarin's achievement as the first person to circle the earth.The museum (also known as Memorial Museum of...
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Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow, Russia
Just second to the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in terms of burial prestige in Moscow, the Novodevichy Cemetery includes many of the most significant "eternal residents" in Russian history.The cemetery was...
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