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San Francisco, California

Bourbon & Branch

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Clinton

Added by Clinton

Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland

Maison d'Ailleurs

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

Marafa Depression

Strange sandstone canyon known as the "place broken by itself."

Kayaköy, Turkey

Abandoned Village of Kayakoy

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

Svalbard Seed Bank

Cold storage for agricultural biodiversity.

stanestane

Added by stanestane

Kunoy, Faroe Islands

Skarð

The abandoned village of Skarð aptly illustrates the idiom "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

East Jerusalem, Israel

Immovable Ladder on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

stanestane

Added by stanestane

Bologna's Istituto di Anatomia Umana Normale

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

Dylan

Owakudani Black Eggs

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

Clinton

Added by Clinton

Salamanca, Spain

Cathedral of Salamanca's Astronaut

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.

Žibřidice, Czechia

Orloj Martina Chaloupky

Abandoned substation turned village treasure.

Da Lat Crazy House

A Surreal flight of architectural fancy in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

Added by ilbonito

Florence, Italy

Ospedale degli Innocenti (Hospital of the Innocents)

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

michelle

Added by michelle

Seaside, Oregon

Tillamook Rock Lighthouse Columbarium

Where Nor'easters go to die.

littlebrumble

Added by littlebrumble

Great Blue Hole

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

anhie

Great Isaac Cay

Bermuda triangle lighthouse, site of mysterious disappearances, left to crumble into the Atlantic.

littlebrumble

Added by littlebrumble

San Francisco, California

San Francisco Columbarium

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

Tre

Mechanical Dragon Clock

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

San Bernardino, California

Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Healing Center

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

anhie

Olympia, Washington

Mima Mounds

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

Added by zenomott

Saint Lunaire-Griquet, Newfoundland and Labrador

L'Anse Aux Meadows

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

Hardo Rattan, India

Wagah Flag Ceremony

On the Pakistan-India border the militaries perform an elaborate theater of aggression each and every night.

Dylan

Thunder Mountain Monument

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

Added by julib82

Prague, Czechia

Strahov Monastery

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

michelle

Added by michelle