Naval Air Station Point Mugu, California
San Nicolas Island
A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."
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Naval Air Station Point Mugu, California
A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."
Anmore, British Columbia
The century-old plant starred as the villainous clown's lair in the miniseries based on Stephen King's "It."
Wuxi Shi, China
A palatial horse museum outside Shanghai is home to the most pampered horses in the world.
London, England
3,000 family pets and military animals are buried in this London graveyard.
Tottori-shi, Japan
Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
The writer took refuge in this home in Southern France for the last 17 years of his life.
New York, New York
From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.
Sandwich, Massachusetts
35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.
Gloucester Township, New Jersey
A completely round house designed for the Atomic Age.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Dyersville, Iowa
The farm toy capital of the world hosts a museum filled with toy tractors dating back to the late 1800s.
Deline, Northwest Territories
Locals believe the purity of this huge, untouched Arctic lake could be the salvation of human civilization.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.
Kingston, New York
Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.
East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
This lake in northwest Iran has started turning from green to red more frequently than scientists are comfortable with.
New York, New York
One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.
Estacada, Oregon
A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.
Xianning Shi, China
This Cold War–era underground city includes offices for Mao Zedong and Lin Biao.
Jackson, Wyoming
One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.
Sarasota, Florida
The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.
Verkhoyanskiy ulus, Russia
The giant Siberian crater known locally as the "doorway to the underworld" is expanding every year.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.
Seattle, Washington
Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.