Today's Featured Places

Warren Anatomical Museum

Boston medical museum featuring the skull of famous medical case Phineas Gage

Hill of Crosses

Old hill fort covered in over 50,000 crosses as a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs

Tautiniai, Lithuania

Alnwick Poison Gardens

The sign at the garden gate reads "Warning, these plants can kill you"

United Kingdom

Mt. Erebus

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth

The Great Serpent Mound

The largest earthwork effigy in the worl

Bighorn Medicine Wheel

Native American circle of stones used to predict astronomical events

Lluvia de Peces: The "Rain of Fish"

Fish raining from the sky are the cause of a yearly celebration in this small Honduran town

Cesare Lombroso's Museum of Criminal Anthropology

Once only open to academics, "Lombroso's Museum" has opened its doors to the public revealing the astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist

Torino, Italy

Star City

Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities

Leonikha, Russia

Hanuman’s Temple

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business

Jaipur, India

Kawah Ijen

Think you have a tough job? Try carrying 200 kilos through a cloud of sulfur down the side of a volcano

Propinsi Jawa Timur, Indonesia

The Berkeley Pit

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home

Montana, US

Turnip Rock

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron

House of Mirrors

Lived-in building, bedecked with an astonishing array of mirror mosaics

Ash Sharq, Kuwait

Victoria Amazonica

Queen of the waterlilies, so big and strong it can support the weight of a human

Kola Superdeep Borehole

The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found

Murmansk, Russia

Huanglong

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China

Hvítserkur

Rising from the sea like a stone monster

Hvitserkur, Iceland

American Sign Museum

A place where beautiful signs can live on forever

Cadet Chapel

Air Force Academy Chapel made of 100 identical tetrahedrons works to inspire those of all religions

Red Sea Star

Underwater restaurant at the coral reefs of Eilat

Elat, Israel

Devil's Swimming Pool

The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

Reed College Research Reactor

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates

Oregon, US

Cesare Lombroso's Museum of Criminal Anthropology

Once only open to academics, "Lombroso's Museum" has opened its doors to the public revealing the astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist

Torino, Italy

Sunken Pirate City at Port Royal

Nature took her revenge on the 'Wickedest City in the World'

Shackleton's Antarctic Hut

Nimrod Polar Expedition base, and home to hundred-year-old frozen whisky

Mount Roraima

The Floating Island

Venezuela

Loch Ard Gorge

Extraordinary example of the process of erosion in action

Port Campbell, Australia

Maltese Catacomb Complexes

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat

Saint Paul's Catacombs, Malta

Shilin (Stone Forest)

270 million year-old forest of stone creates over worldly landscape

Yunnan Sheng, China

Paris, France

Argonaute Submarine

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

The Argonaute French submarine, also known as the S636, was launched on October 23rd, 1958 as a flagship within the Toulon submarine squadron. With its stealthy, silent diesel engines and its... »

Watery Wonders, Unusual Monuments | Edited by katiebaker4 and Rachel

Town of Exeter, New Hampshire, US

Exeter UFO Festival

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town

On a September night in 1965, on a dark road just outside of the town of Exeter, a local 18-year-old hitchhiker by the name of Norman Muscarello witnessed some intensely bright, low-lying aerial... »

Hoaxes and Pseudoscience, Wondrous Performances | Edited by JWOcker and Rachel

Great Harbour's Mouth, Bermuda

At 22 inches wide the Somerset Bridge is said to be the world’s smallest drawbridge. The bridge is just wide enough for the mast of a well-sailed sail boat to pass through, although the ship will... »

Retro-Tech, Architectural Oddities, Outsider Architecture | Edited by leiris and Rachel

Vienna, Austria

The Observation Tower

Located right outside of Vienna, visitors can take in expansive views of an ethereal forest.

The Jubiläumswarte (translated to the Jubilee tower) is an observation tower located in the outskirts of Vienna. Visitors can ascend the winding stair that wraps itself around the tower and look... »

Architectural Oddities, Outsider Architecture | Edited by acclarkey and Rachel

Almaty, Kazakhstan

Beatles Statue of Almaty

The Beatlemania is still strong... at least in Kazakhstan

Bronzing items which one finds important, and well worth saving, isn't a rare practice. Attics and closets across the world are filled with bronze baby shoes, bronze hand prints and, less... »

Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues | Edited by Tawsam, Mark_Casey and others

Town of New Haven, Vermont, US

Grave of Timothy Clark Smith

A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive

Evergreen Cemetery, just off of Town Hill Road in New Haven, VT, is generally unremarkable as far as cemeteries go, except for one fascinating interment. His name was Timothy Clark Smith, and he... »

Memento Mori, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by JWOcker and Rachel

Alfeld, Germany

Museum of Snoring

Getting a good night sleep is an age-old affliction, featured in this one-of-a-kind collection, the Snoring Museum

Schlafen sie gut? Located in Alfeld, Germany (once thought to be where the Brothers Grimm got their inspiration for Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs), is The Alfelder Schlafapnoe- Gesellschaft... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections | Edited by acclarkey and Rachel

Astana, Kazakhstan

Bayterek Tower

A modern tower, symbolizing the legend of a golden egg on top of the tree of life

The Kazakh word "bayterek" translates literally to mean "tall poplar," as in the tree. That's what makes Bayterek Tower such a fitting name for a national monument steeped in symbolism and... »

Unusual Monuments, Commercial Curiosities, Architectural Oddities | Edited by Tawsam, Mark_Casey and others

Tilton Pond, New Hampshire, US

Memorial Arch of Tilton

The massive Roman arch in New Hampshire that was meant to be a tomb

The 55-foot-tall, 40-foot-wide granite Memorial Arch of Tilton in Northfield was supposed to be a giant tombstone for millionaire Charles Tilton. Alas, things did not work out that way, and now... »

Unusual Monuments, Memento Mori, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by JWOcker and Rachel

Town of Hanover, New Hampshire, US

Panarchy Tomb Room

The strange, ritualistic-seeming 100+ year old basement of a New Hampshire undergrad society

Panarchy is a co-ed undergraduate society at Dartmouth University in Hanover, NH. It’s housed in a large, white, column-fronted residence that dates back to 1835. Originally, the historic house... »

Memento Mori, Architectural Oddities, Subterranean Sites | Edited by JWOcker and Rachel