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The world’s largest collection of cork models of ancient Roman buildings, made by a court baker and his son.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

America’s smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

Inside this 3,500-year-old tomb are remarkable ancient Egyptian paintings of African wildlife.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

This historic Art Nouveau townhouse was the former home of the son of a famous chemical inventor and industrialist.

This storybook New England home is actually a decommissioned lighthouse.

A historic and beautiful Art Nouveau chamber in a historic railway station.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

Foreign invaders almost left this lovely Caucasus palace alone—almost.

After falling into disuse, this imposing department store found new life as a Hollywood backdrop and a theater.

This unusual subway stop was originally a real estate office.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.