Washington, Washington, D.C., US

Mr. Fantastic

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VW-Cableway is a 452 metres long cableway, which is part of VW factory Bratislava. It is used to transport the completed cars of Touareg and Polo type to the test treck, in order to test them and... »

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Bratislava, Slovakia

VW-Cableway

A cableway for car transport

VW-Cableway is a 452 metres long cableway, which is part of VW factory Bratislava. It is used to transport the completed cars of Touareg and Polo type to the test treck, in order to test them and... »

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Burlington, Vermont, US

Lake Champlain Monster Monument

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument

Lake Champlain is the defining feature of Burlington, VT, although the body of water is large enough that it’s also the defining feature of quite a few other places as well, but perhaps most... »

Fascinating Fauna, Unusual Monuments | Edited by JWOcker and Rachel

Shetpe, Kazakhstan

Valley of Balls

Mysterious spherical rocks in the semi-desert of western Kazakhstan

Close to the town of Shetpe in Western Kazakhstan lies the Valley of Balls – or Torysh, as it is known in Kazakh. It consists of numerous ball-like rock formations strewn across a wide range of... »

Natural Wonders, Martian Landscapes, Geological Oddities | Edited by Tawsam, Rachel and others

Cayo las Brujas, Cuba

S.S. San Pasqual Shipwreck

Former WWI oil tanker played a variety of roles in history, its tantalizing rum-flavored scent being the only constant

In 1920, The S.S. San Pasqual was launched by the Pacific Marine Construction Company in San Diego as one of the oil tanker ships of the World War I Emergency Fleet. In 1921, she was damaged by a... »

Watery Wonders, Incredible Ruins | Edited by katiebaker4, Rachel and others

Town of Westford, Massachusetts, US

Westford Knight

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar

Legend has it that a Scottish earl named Henry Sinclair took a crew of explorers and discovered America in 1398, a whole century before Christopher Columbus. According to the story, they explored... »

Memento Mori, Dead Explorers | Edited by JWOcker and Rachel

Rapid City, South Dakota, US

Depression era Dinosaur Park

Towering concrete dinosaurs give a window into Depression-era paleontology

Ever since learning of their existence, we've been piecing dinosaurs together, taking them apart, piecing them back together with different heads, naming them, debating them, and renaming them. In... »

Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues | Edited by Dylan, Rachel and others

Town of Ipswich, Massachusetts, US

Crane Mansion on Castle Hill

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick"

The 1987 film "Flowers in the Attic" is based on the V.C. Andrews book of the same name and tells the story of four siblings imprisoned and horribly mistreated in an attic by their narcissistic... »

Architectural Oddities, Eccentric Homes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by JWOcker and Rachel

Mogila Malay, Kazakhstan

Kaindy Lake

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake

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... »

Natural Wonders, Watery Wonders, Geological Oddities | Edited by Tawsam and Rachel