Reykjavik, Iceland
Whales of Iceland
The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Reykjavik, Iceland
The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.
Copenhagen, Denmark
An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.
Ishinomaki, Japan
On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.
New York, New York
A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Jaipur, India
More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.
Mitaka, Japan
A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.
Shiraz, Iran
Mirrors and glass shards cover every inch of this arrestingly beautiful mosque.
New York, New York
A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.
Newton Abbot, England
Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.
Bermuda
Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.
Great Dunmow, England
An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.
Istanbul, Turkey
A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.
Italy
This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.
Ascension Island
Remote, volcanic island that Darwin, Hooker, and the Royal Navy shaped into a thriving, artificial ecosystem.
Yemen
The most alien-looking place on Earth.
Aba, China
Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.
Tianshui, China
Rock-cut caves and 7,000 Buddhist sculptures carved into the nearly sheer face of a sandstone mountain.
Leshan, China
This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.
Xilitla, Mexico
Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.
Alghero, Italy
Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.
Naples, Italy
These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.
Naples, Italy
The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.