Key West, Florida
Dry Tortugas
These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.
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Key West, Florida
These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.
Key Biscayne, Florida
It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.
Miami, Florida
Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.
Miami, Florida
This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.
Miami, Florida
Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.
North Miami Beach, Florida
St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.
Coral Gables, Florida
This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.
Nairn, Scotland
The location of this historic castle was inspired by a donkey.
Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Home to pygmy hunter-gatherers, hundreds of animal and bird species, and the strange okapi, or forest giraffe.
Pocahontas, Arkansas
Despite what scientists think, the town still says this is an extraterrestrial rock.
Daraga, Philippines
This belfry is all that remains of the town that was buried by a violent volcano eruption.
Melrose Park, Illinois
The sign to a demolished amusement park now stands in front of a local library.
Rome, Italy
A huge enchanting public park just outside the ancient walls of Rome.
Queens, New York
A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."
Kirkjubøur, Faroe Islands
This mysterious, medieval cathedral remains unbuilt but fiercely protected.
Monte Albán, Mexico
These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.
Nairobi, Kenya
Located in Nairobi National Park, this animal orphanage is the oldest of its kind in Kenya.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.
Caernarfon, Wales
This Welsh hotel is the spiritual home of the British 1953 Everest expedition, the first successful ascent of Mount Everest.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.
Zurich, Switzerland
Zurich's evolution museum hosts a unique collection of skeletons among its natural history treasures.
Padua, Italy
One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.
Barcelona, Spain
Barça football fans might see the insignia hidden in a church window as a divine sign.
Selçuk, Turkey
This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.