Cape Town, South Africa
Boulders Beach Penguin Sanctuary
This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.
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Cape Town, South Africa
This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.
Cape Town, South Africa
An abandoned water park overtaken by the dunes.
Point Arena, California
The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.
Fort Bragg, California
A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.
Leggett, California
This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.
Phillipsville, California
A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.
Humboldt County, California
One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.
Piercy, California
An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.
Eureka, California
Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.
Orick, California
Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.
Crescent City, California
A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.
Gold Beach, Oregon
This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.
Port Orford, Oregon
A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.
Depoe Bay, Oregon
The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.
Florence, Oregon
Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.
Yachats, Oregon
On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Lived-in building, bedecked with an astonishing array of mirror mosaics.
Maqabil, Oman
Groups of prehistoric tombs that dot the mountains of northern Oman.
Saudi Arabia
Site where Moses may have received the Ten Commandments.
Hegra, Saudi Arabia
More than 100 monumental tombs carved into rock are preserved at this ancient Nabataean site in the Arabian Desert.
Shaharah, Yemen
One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.
Bidah Valley, Saudi Arabia
Village of slate houses, built on a white marble outcrop.
Madaba, Jordan
The world's oldest map of the holy land gives us a fragmented glimpse of the layout of biblical nations.
Jerash, Jordan
Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.