Malta
St. Paul’s Island
This tiny island is recognized as the site where St. Paul landed after a shipwreck in the first century.
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Malta
This tiny island is recognized as the site where St. Paul landed after a shipwreck in the first century.
Uummannaq, Greenland
Danish children are taught that Santa lives in Greenland, at this exact cabin.
Tulare County, California
The last remnant of a tree that helped prove to the world that sequoias are real—and they’re spectacular.
Silver Plume, Colorado
This cliffside memorial marks the final resting place of a lonely violinist.
Matlock Bath, England
Explore the history of mining in this museum, or in a real mine from the 1920s.
Turin, Italy
See every month of the year personified at this opulent Turinese fountain.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
An ancient Roman relief beautifully preserved on the façade of a house.
Alresford, England
This grave remembers the beloved canine companion of soldiers far from home.
Bangkok, Thailand
Displaying religious art made almost exclusively in modern styles helps set this Buddhist temple apart from the myriad others in Bangkok.
San Antonio, Texas
Water still flows through the oldest Spanish aqueduct in America.
Smithfield, North Carolina
The replica western town of Shadowhawk was built by a former Hollywood actor in Smithfield, North Carolina.
Renslow, Washington
A former railroad trestle over Interstate 90 has been refurbished for non-motorized traffic on the Palouse to Cascades trail.
Cape Town, South Africa
An artificial cave littered with semi-precious stones waiting to be picked up.
El Salvador
This color-changing crater lake in El Salvador is occasionally impenetrable to sunlight.
Portland, Oregon
A Portland legend tells of small green archers shooting random passersby with visionary arrows.
Mioglia, Italy
Some say this small Italian church holds a gate to Heaven.
Tokyo, Japan
This 400-year-old noodle joint was once frequented by a fox-turned-monk, according to local folklore.
Janakpur, Nepal
An enormous white temple that honors the birthplace of a Hindu goddess.
Kyoto, Japan
The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.
Ostiglia, Italy
One of the biggest islands in the River Po is a protected nature reserve, reachable only by a seasonal ford rich with endemic fauna, fossils, and late 19th-century buildings.
Conwy, Wales
One of the oldest suspension bridges in the world blends in perfectly with a medieval castle.
Bârsana, Romania
The most impressive example of contemporary Romanian architecture in wood
Cuballing, Australia
On a rural farm road in Western Australia, a full-size, electrified police call box with a big surprise inside.
Ahlat, Turkey
Hundreds of medieval Islamic gravestones decorate the mountainous landscape in the largest cemetery in Turkey.