Takoma Park, Maryland
Bird Calls Phone
An old pay phone rewired to play local bird calls and songs at the press of a button.
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Takoma Park, Maryland
An old pay phone rewired to play local bird calls and songs at the press of a button.
Brunswick, Germany
A purr-fectly spirited bronze celebration of local street felines through history.
Sierra Vista, Arizona
A short interpretive trail about one of the first human cultures in North America.
Jerome, Arizona
A kaleidoscope gallery and steampunk emporium named for a pioneering journalist.
Tampa, Florida
Every Sunday for the last 30 years, this Buddhist temple has hosted a market with food and Thai goods.
Maysville, Colorado
This distinctive snowfield on the slopes of a Colorado fourteener has several legendary origin stories.
Tampa, Florida
This century-old bakery produces 18,000 loaves of traditional Cuban bread every day.
Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma's historic Beaux-Arts train station is now a federal courthouse featuring large-scale glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly.
Ghawr as-Safi, Jordan
This millennium-old site reflects a time when sugar was a treasured commodity.
New Orleans, Louisiana
In 1810, free people of color made up more of New Orleans's population than any other Southern city.
Sop Tia, Thailand
A unique Buddhist temple with strange statues, beehives, and dinosaurs.
Ichinoseki, Japan
This glass-themed tourist park in northern Japan feels like taking a step back in time.
Great Yarmouth, England
This freewheeling amusement ride is the last of its kind.
San Francisco, California
This colorful boulder serves as a canvas for political statements and artistic expression.
Alcoy, Spain
These 7,000-year-old cave paintings depict life in Neolithic Spain.
Wellington, New Zealand
This kinetic sculpture focuses the sounds of the city when you stand inside.
Cumbernauld, Scotland
An ancient Roman altar named after Robert the Bruce.
Bilbao, Spain
Marvel at this immense work of art that greets arrivals to the city.
Talkeetna, Alaska
This Alaskan town appoints the general store's resident feline as honorary mayor.
Rockford, Illinois
A wondrously macabre treasury of obscure antiques and unusual oddities.
Tokyo, Japan
Home to a legend of the supernatural raccoon dog, a rare wooden structure of Edo, and witnesses of the Tokyo bombings.
Strasburg, Pennsylvania
This extraordinary model train layout covers over 1,700 square feet, with multiple trains running simultaneously.
Nam Theun, Laos
The largest hydroelectric project in Laos created this eerie landscape.
Oak Park, Illinois
The first home and studio that belonged to the famous architect.