Southwest Harbor, Maine
Wendell Gilley Museum
One of the few institutions in the United States devoted to the art of decorative bird carving.
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Southwest Harbor, Maine
One of the few institutions in the United States devoted to the art of decorative bird carving.
Santa Barbara, California
A unique local art exhibit that has continued to grow since 1989.
Lee Vining, California
Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.
Whanganui, New Zealand
This bakery sells traditional Māori sourdough.
Franklin, Indiana
A burial site located in the middle of a road.
Monson, Maine
The “Grand Canyon of Maine” is a three-mile gorge full of striking geological features.
Vernal, Utah
A unique collection of drawings that represent Fremont Native American culture.
Port Charlotte, Scotland
It's said taking a hammer and nail to this stone relieves a toothache.
Tlacolula de Matamoros, Mexico
This Oaxacan restaurant serves native corn and Indigenous recipes.
Istanbul, Turkey
One of the newest mosques in a city filled with thousands.
Hiko, Nevada
The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.
Edinburg, Texas
This lake sits on an estimated 4 million tons of salt.
Marietta, Pennsylvania
An industrial waste tourist attraction.
Hillsboro, Ohio
How did a massive marine arthropod find its way to landlocked Ohio?
Las Vegas, Nevada
The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.
Santa Margarita, California
The oldest pictographs on this decorated rock formation in California's Carrizo Plain date back as many as 4,000 years.
Flagstaff, Arizona
A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.
Malmö, Sweden
These waste baskets play a few risque messages to discourage littering.
Paris, Tennessee
A 70-foot replica of the famed Eiffel Tower.
Los Angeles, California
Sit at the "Disney table,” where Walt and his team of "imagineers" once dined on the regular.
Cleveland, Ohio
On the upper deck of this church-owned parking garage stand eight pillars topped with different Catholic saints.
Aswan, Egypt
This North African stone complex is considered to be the oldest astronomical observatory on Earth.
Parkville, Australia
A unique reminder of the once-bustling cattle market during the 19th-century.
West, Texas
Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.