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Horseshoe Bend in WILLIAMS, Arizona
Just a short hike from Route 89 near Page, Arizona is one of America's great natural wonders. In a spectacularly dramatic landscape, the area provides great hiking among the red rocks looking over the...
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Horniman Museum and Gardens in London, United Kingdom
London's Horniman Museum has been a showing off its unique collections since 1890.Focusing on anthropology, natural history and incongruously, musical instruments, the Horniman artfully displays its...
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Kolmanskop Ghost Town in Luderitz, Namibia
People flocked to what became known as Kolmanskop, Namibia, after the discovery of diamonds in the area in 1908. As people arrived with high hopes, houses and other key buildings were built. The new...
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Free Little Library (#0924) in Los Angeles, California
On a small road to the beach in the middle of a big city is Free Little Library #0924.Heading west on Montana (towards the Pacific Ocean) the box containing the books is partially hidden by some tall...
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New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo, New Mexico
Most Americans are familiar with New Mexico's place in the history of space exploration insofar as they associate the state with the site of the supposed Roswell UFO incident. More devoted space fans,...
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Culis Monumentalibus in Oviedo, Spain
At first glance, ‘Culis Monumentalibus’ in Oviedo, Spain is simply a butt on legs, but as one rounds to the other side it is revealed to be two identical posteriors back to back, leaving no question as...
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Lofoten Temperature Anomalies in Røst, Norway
When you think about the northern lines of latitude known as the Arctic Circle, you probably imagine an inhospitable alien world, probably set in mid-winter's freezing cold and unbearable darkness....
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Trentham Monkey Forest in Staffordshire, England
When one thinks of the English moors, the mind tends to lean towards foggy plains and gray skies, but at Staffordshire's Trentham Monkey Forest, the surroundings are a bit more tropical. This...
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Rousakis Plaza Echo Square in Savannah, Georgia
In the middle of historic Savannah, Georgia's Rousakis Plaza is an open square with nondescript brick planters surrounding an X created by the cement pavers, and a mysterious echo created by the...
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Elektotechnikai Múzeum in Budapest, Hungary
A fascinating– if popularly neglected museum–the Elektotechnikai Múzeum features Wimshurst Electrostatic Generators, a Van De Graff generator, Tesla Coils, a model of a nineteenth-century electric car,...
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National Audio Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia
Between 1969 and 1988, the United States Federal Reserve stored billions of shrink-wrapped dollars in a facility lined with 12-inch thick concrete walls, reinforced by steel, and buried nearly 4 feet...
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Bikini Atoll in Marshall Islands
Its name evokes beautiful women in tiny bathing suits on a tropical paradise in the water, and its location mirrors the sentiment. Unfortunately, that is not the case.Bikini Atoll is a Micronesian...
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Blue Lake Rhino Cave in Coulee City, Washington
The Blue Lake Rhino Cave is not named after an Rhinoceros, it was one.The rhinoceros-shaped cave was made by highly fluid, rapid-moving basalt that was once a mature Diceratherium (an ancient ancestor...
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Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew in Sisaket, Thailand
In 1984, a group of monks in Thailand began an epic game of 100 bottles of beer on the wall. Amazingly, their game continued until there were literally 100s of bottles on the wall, totaling over 1.5...
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Fred and Myrtle's Paua Shell House in Christchurch, New Zealand
For 40 years Fred and Myrtle Flutey decorated their New Zealand home with thousands of paua shells that Fred had collected from the nearby beach.The shells quickly became the defining feature of the...
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Buzludzha Monument in Kazanlak, Bulgaria
Located on the remote Buzludzha peak in the mountains of Bulgaria, stands an unusual abandoned monument. The peak itself was the site of battle between the Bulgarians and the Turks in 1868 and later in...
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Shibam Hadhramaut in Shibam, Yemen
Like Manhattan, the high-rises of Shibam were built on a rectangular grid of streets and squares. Unlike Manhattan, the skyscrapers are made of mud, date back to the 16th century, and the dusty streets...
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Le Stade Olympique in Montreal, Canada
The first Canadian city to host the Summer Olympic Games, Montreal began building the ill-fated Le Stade Olympique to be the centerpiece of their 1976 event.Alas, despite the cities intention of...
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Lovokomeio - Chios Leper Colony in Chios, Greece
The beautiful ruins of Lovokomeio reflect the clashing realities of a leprosarium. The colony was built in the 14th century and quarantined people with Hansen’s disease. The illness was infamously...
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King Clone in Johnson Valley, California
Located in the Mojave Desert, these Creosote bushes have been discovered as being a single organism called a clonal colony. A clonal colony is a group of genetically identical plants that grew from a...
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