Charlottesville, Virginia
Monticello's Vegetable Garden and Fruitery
Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.
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Charlottesville, Virginia
Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.
Azumino, Japan
The largest of its kind in Japan, this century-old wasabi farm is also known for its appearance in an Akira Kurosawa film.
Hanamaki, Japan
A fantastical glow-in-the-dark mural inspired by the city’s most famous writer, Kenji Miyazawa.
San Francisco, California
Wander down a side street dedicated to one of the members of the Beat Generation.
Bird Island, North Carolina
A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.
Elberta, Alabama
Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.
Bradenton, Florida
A wonderful world of rare fruits and flowering trees grows in a small botanical park in Bradenton.
East Haddam, Connecticut
This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.
Utrera, Spain
The cathedral of a controversial, conservative, schismatic sect that declared the Catholic Church heretical and founded its own succession of popes.
Leiden, Netherlands
A 14th-century church holds a unique monument to a German mathematician who dedicated his life to calculating the value of pi.
Kamakura, Japan
Hike to a hidden medieval troglodyte necropolis.
Carndonagh, Ireland
This rare and ancient Christian relic is one of Ireland’s oldest freestanding stone crosses.
Ireland
Local legend says the remains of Father Christmas lie within the medieval grounds.
Ballymena, Northern Ireland
A brisk climb up this solitary peak leads to the origin story of a towering figure in Irish history.
County Donegal, Ireland
The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.
Thermopolis, Wyoming
This archaeological dig site and museum is home to one of the largest dinosaur fossil collections in the world.
Roskilde, Denmark
Local legend has it that the Devil's claw marks are etched into this distinctive rock.
Whitehaven, England
Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.
Ivoini, Comoros
This moss-covered, rocky outcropping looks like a mythical beast resting in the water.
Jupiter, Florida
Before this area was filled with luxury homes, it was a movie star's 160-acre ranch and a gangster's hideout.
Hiko, Nevada
Many believe these images represent interstellar lifeforms.
Nazca, Peru
A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.
Green River, Wyoming
This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.
Cachi, Argentina
A Swiss man built this airstrip for aliens because a UFO captain telepathically told him to.