Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis Pyramid
The 10th-tallest pyramid in the world, this former sports arena is now home to a massive Bass Pro Shops store.
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Memphis, Tennessee
The 10th-tallest pyramid in the world, this former sports arena is now home to a massive Bass Pro Shops store.
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
A museum commemorates what was once the largest freight station in Taiwan.
Beverly, Washington
A large, historic railroad trestle over the Columbia River is now open for non-motorized traffic.
Avella, Pennsylvania
This Pennsylvania cave holds evidence of the oldest known inhabitants of North America.
London, England
This sprawling, Brutalist estate feels like a city within a city.
Morrisville, North Carolina
Wander through more than 20,000 square feet filled with an amazing collection of orchids.
London, England
This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.
Saint Blazey, England
The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
For part of the year, this innovative greenhouse is painted white to keep the plants from getting scorched.
Canberra, Australia
This copper-coated, multi-arched dome is surrounded by a moat and lights up at night.
Detroit, Michigan
Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.
Carbondale, Illinois
The only dome home to be owned or occupied by dome inventor Buckminster Fuller.
Chugwater, Wyoming
A small Wyoming town is home to the state's oldest-operating soda fountain.
Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire
The world's largest church atop a political fault line.
Leesburg, Virginia
This giant 200-year-old ginkgo is one of the largest in the United States.
Woodside, California
This massive redwood tree has stood in Northern California for nearly 2,000 years.
Tombstone, Arizona
The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.
Sequoia National Park, California
Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).
Humboldt County, California
One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.
St. Joseph, Minnesota
The first hand-illuminated, hand-written bible since the invention of the printing press.
St. Joseph, Minnesota
A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.
Euclid, Ohio
This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.
Cleft, Idaho
Two geologically young and nearly circular volcanic subsidence craters, each about a half-mile in diameter, abruptly break the nearly featureless Snake River Plain.
New Mexico
One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.