Newchapel, Wales
Cilwendeg Shell House Hermitage
This magical grotto is adorned with a complex pattern of native seashells, minerals, and fragments of colored glass.
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Newchapel, Wales
This magical grotto is adorned with a complex pattern of native seashells, minerals, and fragments of colored glass.
Olomouc, Czechia
Instead of sermons, this church became home to millions of books.
Wellington, New Zealand
This 800-year-old Rimu tree may be the oldest of its kind in the world.
Chania, Greece
This stone tower was built to protect Crete from incoming pirates.
Talkeetna, Alaska
This Alaskan town appoints the general store's resident feline as honorary mayor.
Bilbao, Spain
Marvel at this immense work of art that greets arrivals to the city.
Glen Rose, Texas
A park home to some unusually large rocks.
Scranton, Pennsylvania
This national landmark is also home to a massive treehouse.
Wellington, New Zealand
This kinetic sculpture focuses the sounds of the city when you stand inside.
Alcoy, Spain
These 7,000-year-old cave paintings depict life in Neolithic Spain.
Great Yarmouth, England
This freewheeling amusement ride is the last of its kind.
Oslo, Norway
Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.
San Francisco, California
This colorful boulder serves as a canvas for political statements and artistic expression.
Ichinoseki, Japan
This glass-themed tourist park in northern Japan feels like taking a step back in time.
New Orleans, Louisiana
In 1810, free people of color made up more of New Orleans's population than any other Southern city.
Ghawr as-Safi, Jordan
This millennium-old site reflects a time when sugar was a treasured commodity.
Candolim, India
A former prison within a seaside fort has now been turned into an interactive museum.
Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma's historic Beaux-Arts train station is now a federal courthouse featuring large-scale glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly.
Bangkok, Thailand
This enormous gold Buddha statue was hidden inside a stucco decoy for centuries.
Jamestown, Saint Helena
A grueling 699-step stairway to a heavenly view of the island of Saint Helena.
Subaytilah, Tunisia
A superb Paleo-Christian baptismal pool is preserved among the ruins of ancient Sufetula.
Bitola, North Macedonia
These dilapidated planes are now a canvas for graffiti artists.
Hanover, Germany
Blending modern art with Baroque architecture, this wondrous mosaic grotto serves as the late artist's final creation.
Church Creek, Maryland
The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.