Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The Dubai Frame
The world's largest frame offers spectacular views of the city's past and present.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The world's largest frame offers spectacular views of the city's past and present.
Portland, Oregon
Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.
Kapa'a, Hawaii
This narrow coastline trail through the dense Kauai wilderness is among the most beautiful and dangerous in the world.
San Francisco, California
An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.
San Francisco, California
A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.
Tillamook, Oregon
This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.
Oregon City, Oregon
The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.
Stevenson, Washington
An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.
Tampa, Florida
A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.
Apollo Beach, Florida
Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.
St. Petersburg, Florida
Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.
St. Petersburg, Florida
The story of a Floridian city as told through an obscure sport for retirees.
California
Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.
Brooklyn, New York
Ride the subways of yesteryear.
Brooklyn, New York
An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.
New Hope, Pennsylvania
This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.
Portland, Oregon
Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.
New Salem, North Dakota
The world's largest Holstein cow.
Regent, North Dakota
One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.
Moss Landing, California
More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.
Castroville, California
It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."
Redmond, Oregon
Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.
Hiroshima, Japan
Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.
Nara, Japan
This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.