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Laerdal Tunnel

Aurland, Norway

Laerdal Tunnel

Longest road tunnel in the world features an air treatment plant and the illusion of daylight.

Bioluminescence from glowing plankton off Vaadhoo Island in the Maldives.

Vaadhoo, Maldives

Sea of Stars

Bioluminescence in the reefs of the Maldives causes the sea to glow like a starry night sky.

Abandoned Chateau

Fontenay-en-Parisis, France

Goussainville-Vieux Pays

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

Waitomo, New Zealand

Waitomo, New Zealand

Waitomo Glowworm Caves

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

Tree Mountain

Ylöjärvi, Finland

Tree Mountain

This intricately spiralling forest was created as a monumental work of art.

Visitors can spot Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter from the Reserve.

Stanley, Idaho

Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve

Experience the wonders of a pristine night sky in this landscape free from light pollution.

Hyde Park Pet Cemetery

London, England

Hyde Park Pet Cemetery

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

Lights with boats

Mousehole, Cornwall, England

Mousehole Harbour Lights

The harbour of this Cornish village is illuminated by thousands of lights every Christmas season.

The Thames Barrier as seen from Woolwich.

London, England

Thames Barrier

The world’s second-largest flood defense barrier has protected London for decades.

Santa Claus Village Square

Rovaniemi, Finland

Santa's Hometown

This Finnish town on the Arctic Circle is trademarked as the Official Hometown of Santa Claus.

Looking down into the Ob Tube

McMurdo Station, Antarctica

Observation Tube

A vertical tube that allows you to see what's going on underneath the Antarctic sea ice.

Ancient sand dunes from Glacial Lake Hitchcock.

Bloomfield, Connecticut

Matianuck Natural Area Preserve

Sand dunes from a glacial lake are preserved in this woodland park.

The Mark Twain House

Hartford, Connecticut

The Mark Twain House & Museum

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

Another view of the "Great Scott" rock.

Hartford, Connecticut

Great Scott Moon Rock

An actual piece of the Moon, brought down to Earth by Apollo 15.

Cathedral of St. Joseph

Hartford, Connecticut

Cathedral of St. Joseph

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

Newton's Apple Tree, Trinity College

Cambridge, England

Newton's Apple Tree, Trinity College

This tree was grafted from the actual tree that led Isaac Newton to ponder the theory of gravity.

Reality Checkpoint

Cambridge, England

Reality Checkpoint

An ordinary lamppost situated in the middle of Cambridge has an unusual moniker and history.

The central interior of Leadenhall Market

London, England

Leadenhall Market

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Handprint Fountain

Bath, England

Fountain Handprints

These markers note British stars of both stage and screen.

The external cloister

Florence, Italy

Cloister of the Dead

A haunting medieval cloister that once served as the friars’ burial ground.

Apostle Island Sea Caves

La Pointe, Wisconsin

Apostle Island Sea Caves

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

Last Chance Module Array

Last Chance, Colorado

Last Chance Module Array

Winter and summer solstice aligned sculpture in the middle of nowhere.

A free-ranging reindeer.

Aviemore, Scotland

Cairngorm Reindeer Centre

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

Grot and waterfall.

Rydal, England

Rydal Grot

Thought to be Britain’s earliest purpose-built viewing station, this small hut frames a magical waterfall.

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