Strange Geographies: Portugal's Bone Chapel
"We bones here, for yours await." Nice and creepy.
"We bones here, for yours await." Nice and creepy.
New Zealand boasts some of the world's most beautiful fjords... within an enormous and mostly unpopulated wilderness known as Fjordland.
There's a series of dry valleys in Antarctica, about 4,000 kilometers square, that have no ice on them at all.
The tiny island of Poveglia in the Venice Lagoon, just 2 miles from the glittering palaces of the Grand Canal, has served many unpleasant purposes over the years, including as a quarantine station and a dumping ground for plague victims.
Today is the 33rd anniversary of Vanuatu's independence, called by some the happiest place on earth. Back in 2009, Ransom Riggs stopped by to see what all the fuss was about.
Iceland is a landscape that's still being born.
Some of our readers may remember my Strange Geographies columns from April and May, all about my time in Amsterdam and my road trip through Belgium and Luxembourg, where with the expert help of a Dutch urban explorer I sought out grand old abandoned build