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Antarctica

Blood Falls

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.
Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Torture Museum

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.
Hitachinaka, Japan

Kochia Hill

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.
Lohmen, Germany

The Bastei

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.
Los Angeles, California

Watts Towers

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.
Iceland

Hvítserkur

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.
Baia, Italy

The Sunken City of Baia

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.
San Francisco, California

Alcatraz Island

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
Richfield, Utah

Pando, the Trembling Giant

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.
Hauterives, France

Le Palais Idéal

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Orfield Labs Quiet Chamber

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
Devils Tower, Wyoming

Devils Tower

The first declared National Monument in the United States.
Rome, Italy

Santa Maria della Concezione Crypts

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Abhaneri, India

Chand Baori

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.
New York, New York

The 'Ghostbusters' Firehouse

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.
Tambon Chiang Haeo, Thailand

Red Lotus Lake

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.
Fort Bragg, California

Glass Beach

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.
Gablenz, Germany

Rakotzbrücke Devil's Bridge

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.
Bomarzo, Italy

The Monsters of Bomarzo

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
Los Angeles, California

Bradbury Building

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.
Turkmenistan

The Gates of Hell

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Mütter Museum

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Villa de Leyva, Colombia

Museo El Fósil

A museum built around a bus-sized fossil on the side of the highway.
Sandy, Utah

Mormon Genealogical Archives

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.