Melbourne, Australia
Diana and the Hounds Fountain
A striking bronze sculpture of a Roman goddess with two hound dogs for company.
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Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Melbourne, Australia
The Gothic Bank
This Melbourne bank has unique Gothic-style architectural features and is one of the most majestic operating bank branches in the world.
Melbourne, Australia
Gog and Magog
These mythological giants take time out of their busy day guarding a Victorian market to let you know what time it is.
Sydney, Australia
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!
Walvis Bay, Namibia
The Raft
Hitch a boat ride to dine on stilts while watching wildlife.
Windhoek, Namibia
The Gibeon Meteorites
A public display of prehistoric space rocks is named for the Namibian village where they were found.
Namibia
Tropic of Capricorn Crossing
Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.
Namibia
Welwitschia
Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.
Namibia
Namib Sand Sea
A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.
Namibia
Eduard Bohlen Shipwreck
Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.
Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands
Atomic Bomb Loading Pits
The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Old Japanese Lighthouse
An abandoned lighthouse off the beaten path, one of the few surviving pre-World War II Japanese structures, offers a beautiful view.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Old Japanese Jail
This jail once controlled by the Japanese military now sits abandoned on a remote Pacific island.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Abandoned Pacific Barrier Radar III
This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Banzai Cliff
Where hundreds of Japanese civilians committed suicide to avoid being captured by American soldiers during WWII.
Melbourne, Australia
Old Melbourne Gaol
Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.
Cape Town, South Africa
Boulders Beach Penguin Sanctuary
This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.
Sossusvlei, Namibia
Dead Vlei
This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.
London, England
Clock of the Long Now: Prototype 1
A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.
London, England
Guildhall's Underground Roman Amphitheater
A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.
London, England
Hunterian Museum
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
London, England
Café in the Crypt
This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.
London, England
Sir Ernest Shackleton's Crow's Nest
The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.
London, England
The Burney Relief
This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.
