Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam Gable Stones
In the days before house numbers, these colorful signs held clues about various buildings' purposes.
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
In the days before house numbers, these colorful signs held clues about various buildings' purposes.
Kansas City, Missouri
Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.
Stanley, Falkland Islands
Where British troops serving on the remote islands paid tribute to their faraway hometowns.
York, England
This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.
Volcano, California
Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.
Providence, Rhode Island
An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Zipaquira, Colombia
Cathedral carved out of salt, located a mile below the Earth's surface.
Iceland
Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.
Burgos, Spain
A delightful museum devoted to the history of books.
Barcelona, Spain
One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.
Sant Just Desvern, Spain
An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.
La Pera, Spain
Of course Salvador Dalí lived in a castle...
Argelaguer, Spain
Wonderland replication in progress by one persistent man.
Asque, France
A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."
Serenje, Zambia
Zambia's smallest national park is home to one of the world's largest annual mammal migrations.
Davis, California
Each summer, the migratory bats living beneath the bypass form "batnadoes" at dusk.
Adelaide, Australia
A wealth of plants and horticultural curiosities fill this charmingly antique museum.
Darmstadt, Germany
Crop circles inspired this whimsical garden in Germany.
Paris, France
One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.
Tambon Kuet Chang, Thailand
Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.
Andros, Greece
Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.
Southport, North Carolina
This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.
Moss Landing, California
More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.
Figueres, Spain
This overlooked museum houses an amazing collection of rare, antique typewriters.