9. Great Train Graveyard, Uyuni, Bolivia
Uyuni is mainly known for its salt flats and red lakes, but the Bolivian region has another unusual tourist attraction—a “cemetery” of abandoned, antique trains. In the early 19th century, plans were made to extend Uyuni’s transportation network and build more train tracks through the city, but the project was abandoned due to technical difficulties and tensions with local indigenous people. The trains were still used to transport minerals to port cities on the Pacific, but the minerals ran out in the 1940s, the miners left town, and the equipment was left sitting out in the desert. Time and salty winds have since corroded the trains, resulting in the Great Train Graveyard you see today.
10. Ponyhenge, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Anything that ends with -henge tends to be shrouded in weirdness and mystery, but Massachusetts’s “Ponyhenge” might just be our new favorite. As its name suggests, Ponyhenge is a collection of plastic ponies and rocking horses sitting pretty (and nightmarish-ly) in a field about 14 miles west of Boston. The first ponies started appearing sometime around 2010; over the years, the collection has grown exponentially and will frequently rearrange into circles and rows. How did the first pony appear? Who adds and organizes the collection? Do the ponies come alive when we’re asleep? No one knows. It’s Ponyhenge.