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WhiskeyBristles

Formerly a bartender from Washington, DC, now a wildland firefighter in the American Southwest.

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Goats of the Cingino Dam

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

Josh

Bialbero di Casorzo

A cherry tree growing atop a mulberry tree.

Avigliana, Italy

Dinamitificio Nobel (Dynamite Nobel Living Museum)

Dynamite factory turned museum explores the history of explosives.

Val della Torre, Italy

The Stele of Mount Musinè

A mysterious stele of unknown origin sits on the peak of this curious mountain.

Pietro Micca Museum

This Torino museum honors a soldier who kept the city safe using barrels of exploding gunpowder, losing his life in the process.

Added by Kruser

Novodevichy Cemetery

Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.

Allison

Added by Allison

Baikonur, Kazakhstan

Cosmonaut Grove

Avenue of trees planted by cosmonauts before their space departures.

Allison

Added by Allison

Barskoon, Kyrgyzstan

Monument to Yuri Gagarin

A boulder carved into the shape of the cosmonaut's head.

Dylan

Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Allison

Added by Allison

Laika Monument

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Monument to the Conquerors of Space

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Dampo

Fallen Monument Park

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

Allison

Added by Allison

Jersey City, New Jersey

The Black Tom Explosion Memorial

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

Luke J Spencer

Added by Luke J Spencer

Berlin, Germany

Soviet Graffiti in the Reichstag

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Elliot Carter

Added by Elliot Carter

Marble Falls Township, Texas

Dead Man's Hole

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

slittleton

Added by slittleton

Evenkiysky District, Russia

Tunguska Event Epicenter

Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.

Trevor

Added by Trevor

Commerce City, Colorado

National Wildlife Property Repository

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

Kerry Wolfe

Added by Kerry Wolfe

Los Angeles, California

Old Zoo Picnic Area

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Added by Lisa E

Yachats, Oregon

Thor's Well

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Parshall, North Dakota

Paul Broste Rock Museum

One North Dakota man's vast collection of rare rocks, polished orbs, and geological wonders.

Added by Ashawnta

Berlin, Germany

Friedrichsfelde Socialist Cemetery

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

themirroredroom

Added by themirroredroom

Ogdensburg, New Jersey

Fluorescent Rocks of Sterling Hill Mine

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

Added by Ashawnta

Henrieville, Utah

Kodachrome Basin Spires

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

Added by robemberson

Richmond, Virginia

Church Hill Tunnel

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

Mom0ja

Added by Mom0ja