Miami, Florida
The Kampong
This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.
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Miami, Florida
This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.
Miami, Florida
Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.
North Miami Beach, Florida
St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.
Key Biscayne, Florida
An underwater city for the dead.
Coral Gables, Florida
This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Lucas, Kansas
A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.
Cedar Creek, Texas
A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.
Wiesbaden, Germany
This tremendous timepiece was once the largest cuckoo clock in the world.
Wiesbaden, Germany
A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.
Wiesbaden, Germany
The final resting place of the famed German pilot, the "Red Baron."
Lima, Peru
The retired vessel is South America's first floating museum.
Lima, Peru
Enormous array of antennae fill a desert valley.
Lima, Peru
A pretty park of over 1,600 olive trees that grew from just three saplings brought over from Spain.
Lima, Peru
A market for witches is hidden within a train station.
Lima, Peru
Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.
Lima, Peru
The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.
New York, New York
Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.
New York, New York
A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.
Venice, Italy
As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.
Venice, Italy
This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.
Venice, Italy
Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.
Washington, D.C.
This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.
Peninsula, Ohio
A throwback train ride transports passengers through one of the lesser-known national parks in the country.