Improvement District No. 24, Alberta
World's Largest Beaver Dam
The half-mile long structure is so impressive, it even shows up on satellite images.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Improvement District No. 24, Alberta
The half-mile long structure is so impressive, it even shows up on satellite images.
London, England
London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.
Twentynine Palms, California
This outdoor observatory offers stellar views and a scale model of our solar system.
St. Petersburg, Florida
Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles
Queens, New York
Nine nice parcels of land along a flight path offer a quiet respite... until a plane soars overhead.
Værløse, Denmark
This World War II airfield enjoys a second life as a public park.
Victoria, British Columbia
This small beach park is littered with a collection of unique driftwood sculptures.
Gokdepe, Turkmenistan
This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.
Brownsville, Tennessee
A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.
Queens, New York
An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.
Anegada, British Virgin Islands
A mountain of conch shells created by centuries of fishermen.
Guadalupe, California
Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.
Indianapolis, Indiana
The building is topped by a Statue of Liberty statue whose torch has stayed burning since the museum opened.
Cisco, Utah
Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.
San Francisco, California
This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.
Chicago, Illinois
Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.
Eastham, Massachusetts
The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.
Coraopolis, Pennsylvania
A retrofuturistic art installation in the Pittsburgh Airport.
New York, New York
A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.
Edwards Air Force Base, California
These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.
Washington, D.C.
An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.
Baltasound, Scotland
This Shetland Islands bus shelter may be small, but it squeezes in a couch, a desk, some art, and even an old telly.
Seale, Alabama
A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.
Lisbon, Portugal
One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.