Svalbard, Norway
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.
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Svalbard, Norway
This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.
Grantham, England
One of the oldest libraries in England, and one of the last of the great medieval chained collections.
Kelowna, British Columbia
Unlike many reclaimed, abandoned mines, this Canadian cave system is still just a dangerous maze.
Thompson-Nicola, British Columbia
Every four years, millions of salmon fill a river so densely that its waters appear deep crimson.
West Glacier, Montana
This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.
Vegreville, Alberta
Possibly the world’s easiest Easter-egg hunt.
Alberta
A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.
Mestia, Georgia
Despite being tiny and rural this Georgian airport looks like a sci-fi boondoggle.
Belgrade, Serbia
In the hinterlands of Serbia's capital, a giant reflective mushroom houses an aeronautical history of the former Yugoslav republic.
Sisters, Oregon
This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.
Baghdad, Iraq
A 605-page Quran penned in the blood of a dictator is locked away in a mosque.
Iceland
A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.
Nunavut
Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.
Thule, Greenland
Neither bomb blasts nor heartbeats escape the giant ears of this super sci-fi Arctic outpost.
Antarctica
The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.
Antarctica
Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.
Antarctica
Largest sub-glacial lake ever discovered.
Antarctica
These passages carved from the Antarctic ice hold strange shrines to the harsh southernmost climes.
Panguipulli, Chile
This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.
San Rafael, Argentina
This Argentinian hedge maze is an intricate tribute to a famous surrealist author.
Valparaiso, Chile
This historic Chilean cemetery is the burial place of hundreds of European and American freethinkers and non-Catholics.
Santiago, Chile
A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.