Los Angeles, California
La Brea Tar Pits Dragonfly Fossils
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
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Los Angeles, California
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
California
The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.
Los Angeles, California
World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.
Lee Vining, California
Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.
San Luis Obispo, California
A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
Boston, Massachusetts
Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.
Boston, Massachusetts
Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Congleton, England
This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.
Macclesfield, England
One of the largest mechanical models of the solar system in the world.
Manchester, England
The remnants of a depressing public toilet are now a hub of ever evolving street art.
Liverpool, England
Created as a punny statement about genetic engineering this monstrous hybrid statue has become a beloved icon.
Dublin, Ireland
One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.
Laxey, Isle of Man
World's largest working waterwheel has been around for over 150 years.
Bushmills, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.
Dublin, Ireland
The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.
Dublin, Ireland
The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.
London, England
The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.
London, England
A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.
London, England
Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.