Washington, D.C.
Art Museum of the Americas
The most magical part of this Latin American and Caribbean art museum is a room covered in beautiful blue tiles from floor to ceiling.
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Washington, D.C.
The most magical part of this Latin American and Caribbean art museum is a room covered in beautiful blue tiles from floor to ceiling.
Washington, D.C.
This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.
Port Clyde, Maine
Forrest Gump ran past this iconic Maine lighthouse in his cinematic cross-country journey.
Mansfield, Ohio
Superfans of The Shawshank Redemption can take a driving tour of most of the films real locations.
Lake Lure, North Carolina
Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.
Evans City, Pennsylvania
The iconic grave markers from George A. Romero's 1968 horror masterpiece,Night of the Living Dead.
Coleford, England
The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."
Suakin, Sudan
Remains of an abandoned coral city.
Kenya
A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.
Aden, Yemen
This impressive system of tanks was used to store drinking water as long as 2,000 years ago.
Ethiopia
According to one local legend, this image was created during a battle between a wild lioness and the archangel Michael.
East Tigray, Ethiopia
Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.
Arsi, Ethiopia
Ethiopian standing stones featuring remarkably preserved carvings of swords and people.
Greece
A seaside castle complex that stood through centuries of conquests.
Preveza, Greece
The ruins of this monumental city founded by the first Roman Emperor are strangely overlooked by most travelers.
Kalabaka, Greece
Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.
Trikala, Greece
This former mill comes to life during the Christmas season.
San Juan Bautista la Raya, Mexico
It makes sense that this airport, serving one of Mexico's most artistic cities, also doubles as a gallery.
Le Mans, France
A rainbow tunnel painted across three buildings and six storeys pulls a child (and every passerby) straight down the rabbit hole, ranked among the world's best murals the year it went up.
Heraklion, Greece
One of Minoan Crete's most famous images, a crowned, lily-adorned figure striding through a garden, was largely invented in the 1900s from a handful of surviving fragments, and archaeologists still argue about what it actually shows.
Istanbul, Turkey
The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.
Jitta, Lebanon
A monumental underground karstic wonderland is also the water source for over a million citizens of Beirut.
Denizli Merkez, Turkey
A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.
Paphos, Cyprus
The ruins of a fifth-century church dedicated to Our Lady of the Harbor.