Salazie, Réunion
Piton des Neiges
Réunion Island's highest point is a two-million-year-old volcano and a paraglider's paradise.
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Salazie, Réunion
Réunion Island's highest point is a two-million-year-old volcano and a paraglider's paradise.
Sainte Rose, Réunion
On one of the world's most active volcanoes, a pebble-filled crater changes color with the wind.
Olten, Switzerland
A bronze statue commemorating his royal meowjesty, Toulouse.
Ellicott City, Maryland
A former pillar of the Black community in Ellicott City.
Helsinki, Finland
On a small island, a replica of a Finnish village from the Iron Age.
Al-Badie Al-Shamali, Saudi Arabia
Parts of this palace are upheld by merely palm stems or reeds supported by palm tree beams.
Geneva, Switzerland
One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.
Geneva, Switzerland
This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.
Port Angeles, Washington
An abandoned World War II bunker is part of a chain that runs throughout Washington.
Budapest, Hungary
A relic of World War I that now exist as a piece of public art.
Stonyhurst, England
The grounds of this Catholic boarding school are said to have inspired Arthur Conan Doyle and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Indianapolis, Indiana
At the top of the hour, this steam-powered clock's eight brass whistles play "Back Home Again in Indiana."
Geneva, Switzerland
One of the most historical literary characters continues to stroll his hometown.
Torpshammar, Sweden
The "geometrical" center of the country, as calculated in 1947.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.
Ohakune, New Zealand
The largest model carrot in the world.
Chewton, Australia
A 19th-century baker stands ready to serve customers.
Funchal, Portugal
Crafted from ocean litter, this sculpture highlights the ills of overconsumption.
Southwest Harbor, Maine
One of the few institutions in the United States devoted to the art of decorative bird carving.
Newport, Rhode Island
Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.
Bath, Maine
One of the largest wooden ships ever built is honored by a steel sculpture evoking her once-superlative scale.
Shreveport, Louisiana
One of the largest collections of intact Victorian-era waterworks equipment in the world.
Whanganui, New Zealand
This bakery sells traditional Māori sourdough.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Once a meeting point for great thinkers, and the midpoint of the country.