Ubar, Oman
Ubar
Some claim these desert ruins are from the legendary "Atlantis of the Sands."
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Ubar, Oman
Some claim these desert ruins are from the legendary "Atlantis of the Sands."
Oman
Nature's water park in the Wadi Bani Awf valley is full of pools flanked with cliffs and natural water slides.
Nakhl, Oman
An imposing Omani fortress surrounded by date palm trees.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.
Scottsboro, Alabama
One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.
Essington, Pennsylvania
North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.
Memphis, Tennessee
The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.
Atlanta, Georgia
The home of a 19th-century author who brought African-American folktales to the mainstream is now Atlanta’s oldest house museum.
Atlanta, Georgia
An old bank vault in Atlanta is now the eternal shrine to the King of Rock and Roll.
Reno, Nevada
The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.
Reno, Nevada
This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.
Reno, Nevada
This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.
Cambridge, England
This tree was grafted from the actual tree that led Isaac Newton to ponder the theory of gravity.
Bagram, Afghanistan
The West's first incursion into the Afghan world lies buried beneath a military base.
Wieliczka, Poland
An underground city of salt.
Oswiecim, Poland
The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.
Krakow, Poland
St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.
Krakow, Poland
Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.
Mendon, Vermont
Small rustic cabin nested in the mountains of Killington, Vermont.
Shrewsbury, Vermont
A cable-suspension footbridge that hangs high above the Mill River.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.
Gardners, Pennsylvania
A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.