Pello, Finland
Oranki Art
A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Pello, Finland
A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.
Övertorneå N, Sweden
A Swedish town came up with an out-of-the-box way to eliminate the bloodthirsty insects.
Skellefteå, Sweden
This little gallery is devoted to one small town's passion for a very special cheese.
Boden N, Sweden
A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.
Eskilstuna, Sweden
Stone carvings record the Norse myth of Sigurd, providing a glimpse into Scandinavia's transition from paganism to Christianity.
Kvarntorp, Sweden
An eclectic sculpture park rises atop a giant pile of ashes in Sweden.
Washington, D.C.
The only National Monument ever to go missing for nearly 50 years then resurface in a dump.
Gourma Rharous, Mali
Muammar Gaddafi's well-intentioned investment in his favorite city turned out to be a nightmare.
Georgia
Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.
Tbilisi, Georgia
The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.
Sweden
Enigmatic bug-like sculptures mystify drivers along a Swedish highway.
Jönköping N, Sweden
A forest of immensely tall and unusually straight oak trees planted nearly 200 years ago to build naval ships that never came to be.
Pāhoa, Hawaii
A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.
Honolulu, Hawaii
This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.
Wahiawa, Hawaii
This ancient Hawaiian henge may have been an early star chart.
Wahiawa, Hawaii
Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.
Kaneohe, Hawaii
A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.
Kaneohe, Hawaii
An authentic replica of an Asian temple and garden hidden amongst the natural beauty of Hawai'i.
Honolulu, Hawaii
Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.
Honolulu, Hawaii
The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.
Honolulu, Hawaii
During the solar phenomenon "Lahaina Noon" this bendy, curvy sculpture forms a perfectly circular shadow on the ground.
Honolulu, Hawaii
The grand marquee of this abandoned Hawaiian theater remembers the building's elegant past.
Kealakekua, Hawaii
A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.