This Italianate house was the childhood home of the prominent Canadian painter, Emily Carr.

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

A playful symbiosis of art, nature, architecture, and garden design, a hidden gem off the beaten path

The largest prehistoric cemetery on the Balearic Islands dates back over 2,500 years.

This historic electric train has operated with regularity since the early 1900s.

The plaques around this 19th-century structure recall some rather strange tales.

This section of the Kennet and Avon Canal has been designated the same level of heritage protection as Stonehenge.

In 1999, a new equine figure was cut into this English hillside near the site where an older white horse had previously appeared.

This bridge later moonlighted as a local jail.

This Welsh hotel is the spiritual home of the British 1953 Everest expedition, the first successful ascent of Mount Everest.

The highest peak in Wales is said to be the final resting place of a giant killed by King Arthur.

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.

In a resort town where the real Alice spent her summer holidays, iconic characters create a curious trail.

A 1930s Art Deco swimming pool with a design inspired by grand ocean liners.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

A pocket of Buenos Aires with an unusually high concentration of psychotherapists.

The same water that fills a luxury resort’s pools feeds these free hot springs in the rainforest.

A crumbling cathedral condemned by an earthquake.

This group of small islands on Lake Nicaragua formed after an eruption of the Mombacho volcano.