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The Last Concrete Ship in Powell River, Canada
A semicircle of ten concrete war ships forms a breakwater in the Malaspina Strait, near the shore of the city of Powell River, Canada. Nine of the ships are remainders from World War II. The S.S....
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Sphinx Observatory in Jungfraujoch, Switzerland
Scientists have long traveled to Earth's ends to conduct their studies. Mountaintops are a classic example of a harsh environment that serves as an ideal setting for experiments ranging from the...
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Kaindy Lake in Kazakhstan
Kaindy Lake is an idyllic mountain lake in Kazakhstan’s portion of the Tian Shan Mountains, close to the country’s largest city, Almaty. The lake was formed after an earthquake in 1911, which caused a...
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Li Grave Stones in Sweden
Some of Sweden's earliest populations lived and died in the rough countryside created in the wake of retreating ice age glaciers near Lake Lygnern. The gravel ridge known as Fjaras Bracka is marked...
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Bohart Museum of Entomology in Davis, California
Much like a cache of bees nestled in a tree or a spider concealed by camouflage, the magical Bohart Museum of Entomology is visibly invisible unless you were to stray down a corridor of the Academic...
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Reed College Research Reactor in Portland, Oregon
Manned by a staff of 40 undergraduate students, the Reed College Research Reactor has been in use as a research and teaching facility since 1968. Reed is the only liberal arts college in the world with...
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Galleta Meadows Estate in Borrego Springs, California
Driving along the remote SoCA S-3 highway, you might spy a horse as it rears off to the side of the road. Then, rising out of the flat desert landscape, an elephant appears. Alarmingly close by, a...
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Fall of the Golden Spruce in Canada
The legend of this golden tree has deep roots.Between the Northern coast of British Columbia and the Southern coast of Alaska lies the Yakoun River in the Haida Gwaii, or Queen Charlotte Islands. Along...
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Carousel of Extinct and Endangered Animals in Paris, France
Turning in a whirl beneath gently clanging music in the Jardin des Plantes is a small carousel of animals that are now extinct — or may be soon.Called the Dodo Manège, this carousel was installed in...
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Pepsi Inventor Caleb Bradham's Grave in New Bern, North Carolina
New Bern, NC is known as the 'Birthplace of Pepsi.' and for good reason. In his pharmacy, Bradham created 'Brad's Drink,' which was renamed Pepsi-Cola, in 1898. Mr. Bradham's final resting place is...
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Atlas Missile Silo Home in Lewis , New York
The control center of an Atlas nuclear missile silo, this was where defense workers awaited orders to initiate an intercontinental ballistic missile strike. Now decommissioned it has been repurposed...
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The Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle, England
When one thinks of persecuting and burning witches, one imagines long-ago rural England or Salem, Massachusetts in the 1690s. However in England persecution of "witches" lasted well into the 1950s , at...
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Merzbarn in England
Out in the lush hills of the Lake District are the remains of the last artistic creation of a Dadaist legend.Kurt Schwitters was a German-born artist who, having been labeled a degenerate, fled the...
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Great Guatemalan Sinkhole in Guatemala City, Guatemala
Guatemala City has had experience with sinkholes before: In 2007, three people and a dozen homes here suddenly disappeared into the earth. But no one was prepared for anything like this.On Sunday, May...
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Brooklyn Grange Farms and Apiary in Long Island City, New York
Since 2010 Brooklyn Grange has been supplying New York City with local produce grown several stories above ground.Despite its name, the Brooklyn Grange flagship location is actually in Queens where it...
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Swan Islands in Swan Islands, Honduras
Currently occupied only by a small military squad, the Swan Islands are located approximately 90 miles off the coast of Honduras.It was used by the USA during the Cuban Missile Crises as a radio hub to...
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Abandoned London Post Office Railway in London, United Kingdom
The Post Office Railway—commonly known as “Mail Rail”—was an automatic electric railway created to speed Royal Mail delivery in London by bypassing the city's congested streets. In the 2000s, Royal...
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South China Mall in Dongguan, China
Built in the southern Chinese industrial city of Dongguan, the sprawling 9.6 million square foot South China Mall opened in 2005 as the largest mall in the world, more than twice the size of the of the...
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Zymoglyphic Museum in San Mateo, California
Located at the end of a suburban cul-de-sac and open to the public for only two days a year, the Zymoglyphic Museum houses the cabinet of curiosities created by artist Jim Stewart.Early modern cabinets...
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Baan Dam - Black House in Chang Rai, Thailand
Everything as Baan Dam is black, or at least gives off a dark aura, and each one of the 15 houses is embellished and furnished with animal remains.Artist Thawan Duchanee has an impressive collection of...
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