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Tarpeian Rock: in the early Roman empire, people deemed traditors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock

2 years ago Danilo G.

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Tham Piew Cave: a tangible reminder of an atrocity that took place during a secret war.

2 years ago Ivan

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Fairy Steps, the legendary stone steps that were once used to haul coffins up the rockface ~

2 years ago Leo S

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Katzenbalgen, the Monument to Homeless Cats

2 years ago Pavel

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Nine Ladies stone circle and their King Stone

2 years ago Nathan

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Hanoi’s Train Street: twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

2 years ago Nathan

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Drangurinn Rock and the Elves in South-Iceland Folklore

2 years ago Nathan

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Obake Kaidan: a flight of this “ghost staircase” has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down….

2 years ago Nathan

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El Cañuelo: the small fort that played a huge role defending Puerto Rico’s capital city

2 years ago Robin

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Old City Wall of Berlin: the last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city

2 years ago Anya016

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The Stromatolites of Hamelin Pool – Australia

2 years ago Nathan

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Popeye Village: an abandoned set from the 1980 film claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

2 years ago Ivan

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Catemaco: the witchcraft capital of Mexico

3 years ago Ivan

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England’s Bolton Strid: the most dangerous stretch of water in the world

3 years ago Leo S

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Pozzo del Diavolo: was this cave created by Hercules’s wrath, the devil, or volcanic activity?

3 years ago Ivan

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Dinosaur footprints at the Isle of Skye – Scotland

3 years ago Ivan

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Chichen Itza Chirp: clapping at base of an ancient pyramid echoes the call of a sacred bird

3 years ago Robin

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Anundshög – the Sweden’s largest burial mound, allegedly belonging to a mythical king

3 years ago Ivan

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Hyder: the easternmost town in Alaska that can only be accessed from Canada.

3 years ago Leo S

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Yangzhou Zhongshuge: this Chinese library’s interior is designed to look like an infinite tunnel of books

3 years ago Ivan

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Air Sinai: the ghost airline that has linked Cairo and Tel Aviv for decades

3 years ago Ivan

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Bangkok’s “David Beckham Temple”: one of the world’s weirdest religious buildings

3 years ago Robin

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Whitby Abbey: the gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

3 years ago Leo S

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Crater Lake: the deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in myth.

3 years ago Leo S

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The strange story of why human urine was transported to quarries in North East Yorkshire

3 years ago Nathan

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Vicars’ Close: the oldest residential street in Europe that also features an optical illusion.

3 years ago Nathan

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The Aqueduct of Segovia, a glorious Roman heritage in Spain

3 years ago Nathan

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Buford, Wyoming: Population 1 (and now zero)

3 years ago Leo S

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Torre Argentina – the Roman Cat Sanctuary

3 years ago Nathan

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Pidhirtsi Castle: one of the most valuable palace-garden complexes in the Ukrainian’s eastern borderlands—and one of the most haunted!

3 years ago Ivan

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Kościół w Kartuzach: the coffin-shaped church in Poland where monks once slept in coffins

3 years ago Nathan

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Fingal’s Cave, the “Cave of Melody” in Scotland

3 years ago Ivan

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Francesco Petrarca’s house: a modest museum in the final home of Italian poet

3 years ago Anya016

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Holy Well of St. Madron – Cornwall

3 years ago Nathan

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The unsolved mystery of Ding Wuling, China’s mosquito-free village

3 years ago Robin

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The 199 steps (with benches for coffins) of Whitby, England

3 years ago Leo S

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Sinhagad: the lion’s fort in Pune – India

3 years ago Ivan

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Kaizō-ji temple and its legends – Japan

3 years ago Pavel

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Grand Midway Hotel – Pennsylvania: the haunted Hotel with the world’s largest Ouija board on the roof.

3 years ago Nathan

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Sarmizegetusa Regia: the legendary capital of the Dacians

3 years ago Ivan

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“Old Man of the Lake”: the tree log that has been floating vertically for 120 years and no one knows why.

3 years ago Leo S

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Maglič fortress: a mysterious 13th century piece of serbian history

3 years ago Nathan