San Antonio, Texas
Japanese Tea Garden
A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.
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San Antonio, Texas
A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.
Newport, Rhode Island
You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.
Marathon, Texas
An unusual bed & breakfast made of papercrete.
Fredericksburg, Texas
An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.
Wimberley, Texas
A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.
Glen Rose, Texas
Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.
Houston, Texas
One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.
Gaiman, Argentina
A retiree's challenge to build an outdoor wonderland out of trash.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
A pocket of serenity in hectic Buenos Aires, complete with a peaceful courtyard and massive library.
Mar del Plata, Argentina
A grotto replicating one of the world's most famed Marian apparitions sits across the ocean from the original.
Zavalla, Texas
A 19th century family buried their dead among the pines, beneath gravestones styled after ancient Scottish cairns.
Deseado Department, Argentina
Conifers from the Jurassic Period transformed into stone in Patagonia.
Sarmiento Department, Argentina
An ancient forest of the Paleocene Age turned to stone.
Cafayate, Argentina
Visit this odd display of indigenous style in Argentine wine country.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.
Luján, Argentina
A neo-Gothic castle in the Argentinian countryside.
González Catán, Argentina
An Argentinian businessman facing terminal cancer built this whimsical medieval village using salvaged materials.
Carhué, Argentina
Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.
Argentina
Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.
Foz do Iguaçu, Argentina
A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.
Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina
This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.
Lima, Peru
The elaborate crypt where Peruvian heroes of the War of the Pacific were laid to rest.
Tambopata, Peru
This small oxbow lake has rare giant river otters and some Seussian-sounding birds.