San Francisco, California
San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers
Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.
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Dublin, Ireland
Natural History Building, National Museum of Ireland
Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.
Dublin, Ireland
Oddities of Christ Church Cathedral
The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.
Coffs Harbour, Australia
Big Banana
One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.
Sydney, Australia
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!
Woombye, Australia
The Big Pineapple
A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.
Princetown, Australia
The Twelve Apostles
Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."
Yallabatharra, Australia
Principality of Hutt River
A micronation of epic proportions.
Athens, Greece
Syntagma Square Metro Station
Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.
Athens, Greece
Antikythera Mechanism
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
