Birdsville, Australia
The Birdsville Hotel
A historic hotel on the edge of the Australian outback.
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Birdsville, Australia
A historic hotel on the edge of the Australian outback.
Magnetic Island, Australia
After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.
Fraser Island, Australia
WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.
Katoomba, Australia
This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.
Davenport, Australia
Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.
Princetown, Australia
Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."
Cervantes, Australia
Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.
Hyden, Australia
This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.
Coober Pedy, Australia
An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.
Los Angeles, California
Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."
Los Angeles, California
Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.
Los Angeles, California
The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.
Cabazon, California
The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.
Laguna Beach, California
This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.
Hemet, California
This mysterious petroglyph evokes the ancient swastika symbol but was later vandalized with the more troublesome Nazi one.
Mecca, California
The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.
San Juan Capistrano, California
Oldest building in California still in use.
Ensenada, Mexico
A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.
Ocotillo, California
This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".
Jacumba, California
Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.
Palomar Mountain, California
A world-class observatory in the California desert.
Carlsbad, California
Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.
Lemon Grove, California
The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.
San Diego, California
San Diego's most historic and haunted home.