Solvang, California
Solvang Wind Harp
California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.
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Solvang, California
California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.
Eastsound, Washington
One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.
Vernal, Utah
Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.
Dunino, Scotland
A site of pagan worship which still attracts people looking for fairies.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.
New York, New York
A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.
Boudry, Switzerland
This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.
Zadar, Croatia
A musical instrument played by the sea.
San Francisco, California
A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.
Bushmills, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.
Katoomba, Australia
A massive stairway that almost wasn't leads to one of Australia's most scenic vistas.
Chile
A fantastical group of cliffside stairways, bridges, and twisting paths carved out of stone provide a surreal coastal hike.
El Peñol, Colombia
A 10 million-ton rock once worshiped by the Tahamies Indians, accessed by an astounding staircase.
Palo Alto, California
Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.
Stanford, California
A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.
Austin, Texas
A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.
Austin, Texas
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
Castellfollit de la Roca, Spain
Village situated on a narrow volcanic escarpment.
Sun Valley, Idaho
Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.
Sequoia National Park, California
Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).
Ballymoney, Northern Ireland
The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.
South San Francisco, California
A large instrument played by the wind.
Paris, France
A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.