Weil am Rhein, Germany
Giant Chairs of Weil am Rhein
A town that sets itself apart with supersized designer seating.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Weil am Rhein, Germany
A town that sets itself apart with supersized designer seating.
Cocoa Beach, Florida
A tribute to a hometown hero and surfing legend.
Krakow, Poland
Remnants from a time before electricity.
Page, Arizona
Archaeologists believe this panel of petroglyphs depicting descending sheep and other figures in Glen Canyon are 3,000 to 6,000 years old.
Saywun, Yemen
One of the largest mud-brick structures in the world.
Goseck, Germany
A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.
Franeker, Netherlands
Home to the world's oldest functioning orrery.
Colombo, Sri Lanka
The first and only planetarium in Sri Lanka.
Rhinelander, Wisconsin
One extremely determined man's homemade universe.
Munich, Germany
A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.
Phoenix, Arizona
Artifacts from a battleship sunk at Pearl Harbor displayed in the Capitol building of its namesake.
Fairplay, Colorado
This open-air reconstruction of an Old West town, a cross between a theme park and a museum, provides an immersive historical experience.
Kirkjubæjarklaustur, Iceland
What was once believed to be a church floor turned out to be the artwork of geology.
Hamburg, New Jersey
An approximately 500 million-year-old rock outcropping covered in fossilized bacteria.
Caerphilly, Wales
Enthusiasts of the mid-20th century magician and comedian erected this statue in the small Welsh town in which he was born, even though the comedian only lived there for three years.
Tropic, Utah
A late-19th century diversion canal built by hand crosses Bryce Canyon National Park and is still in use.
Berlin, Germany
Superb sweets await at the first Jewish bakery inducted into Berlin’s prestigious baker’s guild.
Malta, Ohio
This underground holding cell was forgotten for over a century and rediscovered in the 1960s.
Dawdon, England
The fossilized trunk of a tree that grew around 320 million years ago.
Kornhult, Sweden
A sculpture of three large candles in the middle of the water of the river Smedjeån.
Langholm, Scotland
A pair of stone circles positioned on the bank of the River Esk.
Migné-Auxances, France
An enormous collection of cars, figurines, signs, puppets, strollers and other collectibles.
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
The final resting place of Gary Gygax; co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons.
Huntington, Indiana
A former limestone quarry has found a new life as a flourishing community garden.