Athens, Georgia
The Tree That Owns Itself
A white oak with property rights.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Athens, Georgia
A white oak with property rights.
Dublin, Ireland
This supermarket offers shoppers a window into the past alongside their groceries.
Tokyo, Japan
A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.
Ridgedale, Missouri
If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.
Luján de Cuyo, Argentina
A brightly colored natural bridge formed by mineral-rich hot springs high up in the Andes.
Denver, Colorado
A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.
Greece
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
Micronesia
Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.
Nanwei, Micronesia
The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.
Union, Illinois
At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.
Ashmore, Illinois
This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.
Porto, Portugal
This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This cannonball embedded in the side of an Edinburgh house once served a surprisingly pedestrian purpose.
San Francisco, California
A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.
Zvërnec, Albania
One of 200 religious buildings recognized as a “culture monument.”
Lititz, Pennsylvania
Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.
Pantelleria, Italy
This ancient walled garden turns fog into food.
Cleveland, Ohio
This Cleveland mansion has played host to a German singing group, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, a funeral parlor, and many civil rights meetings.
Porto, Portugal
A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.
Wormingford, England
Was the ravaging reptilian that terrorized this village a dragon, or an escapee from a London menagerie?
Machynlleth, Wales
Led Zeppelin wrote some of their most iconic songs at this little 18th-century Welsh cottage.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.