Kitakyushu, Japan
Wisteria Tunnel
An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.
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Kitakyushu, Japan
An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.
Putty, Australia
Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.
Raymond Island, Australia
Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.
Australia
An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.
Verul, India
This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.
Gheti, India
A mecca for India's Jains.
Chandigarh, India
A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.
Jaipur, India
The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.
Abhaneri, India
Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.
Aït Ben Haddou, Morocco
A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families
Brooklyn, New York
A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.
Charleroi, Belgium
The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.
Kaltenbach, Austria
Part ski resort, part modern art space, this lodge brings giant metal spiders and bloody doors to the Austrian Alps.
Garni, Armenia
A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.
Boca do Acre, Brazil
Hub for hallucinogenic Amazon religion.
Brussels, Belgium
Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.
Lancaster, England
The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.
Greenland
The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.
Svalbard, Norway
This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.
Pyramiden, Norway
This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.
Davis Station, Antarctica
Antarctica's only sculpture garden, it has art and penguins, but no plants in sight.
Antarctica
These abandoned huts still hold the remains of an early 20th century Australian researcher's work.
Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.