Portland, Oregon
Vaux's Swifts at Chapman School
Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.
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Portland, Oregon
Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.
Spencer, West Virginia
A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.
Bellaire, Ohio
There are more than 4 million bricks inside this unofficial Lego museum in a former middle school.
Los Angeles, California
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
Diamond, Oregon
The unique circular corral belonging to the “Cattle King” of Oregon.
Lille, France
This statue honors the thousands of Allied avians that served and died for France during World War I.
Toronto, Ontario
A unique collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and everything in-between.
Golden, Colorado
"All Mountains - All The Time."
Washington, D.C.
A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.
Cambridge, England
An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.
Ochopee, Florida
This isolated airport in the middle of the Everglades sees more alligators than planes.
Queens, New York
The world’s largest collection of Tiffany glass sits in a warehouse in Queens.
Bristol, England
The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.
Ramla, Israel
This 1939 grave of a British soldier now receives legions of unlikely visitors.
Vashon, Washington
Walking by this fence is like strolling along a portal to various fictional worlds.
Whitehorse, Yukon
A spoke-tacular artwork constructed from recycled bicycle rims.
Danvers, Massachusetts
Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.
Sullivan's Island, South Carolina
A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.
Oxford, England
The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.
Little River, California
A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.
Heimaey, Iceland
Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.
Moorestown, New Jersey
An unusual assortment of steerable wooden sleds is on display in a library in New Jersey where they were first invented.
Kissimmee, Florida
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.
Washington, D.C.
This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.