Saugerties, New York
Opus 40
One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.
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Saugerties, New York
One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.
Howes Cave, New York
Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?
Middlebury, Vermont
The Vermont grave of a 4,000-year-old mummy prince.
Montreal, Québec
Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.
Pushkin, Russia
An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.
Helsinki, Finland
Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.
Saturnia, Italy
Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.
Viterbo, Italy
This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.
Porto, Portugal
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
Orick, California
Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.
Ranau, Malaysia
Four distinctly unique gardens commemorate the POWs who lost their lives during the Sandakan Death Marches of 1945.
San Francisco, California
A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.
Brighton, England
Regency-era excess on the English Coast.
Mont Saint-Michel, France
This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.
Marazion, England
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
Atlanta, Georgia
Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.
England
Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".
Alnwick, England
The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”
Doganella di Ninfa, Italy
Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.
New York, New York
Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.