Pacifica, California
Devil's Slide Bunker
The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.
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Pacifica, California
The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.
Pescadero, California
A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.
Delices, Dominica
This mountaintop lake bubbles and steams in a perpetual boil, thanks to its direct link to the Earth's interior.
Paramaribo, Suriname
This "witch's market" is filled with Amazonian herbs, remedies, and the occasional libido-strengthening tincture.
Northampton, Massachusetts
A rock and sand industrial site returns to its natural habitat.
Nassau, Bahamas
The world’s largest underwater sculpture is found just off the coast of Nassau.
Nassau, Bahamas
This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.
Lee, Massachusetts
Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."
Chamonix, France
Every year, a sparkling cave is sculpted in the icy heart of a glacier.
Chamonix, France
Trek up this glacier before it disappears.
Chamonix, France
Unable to build support structures on glaciers, the engineers for this tramway were forced to design a unique system.
Lausanne, Switzerland
This large sculpture of white plates and forms is actually a huge sound amplifier.
Lausanne, Switzerland
A constellation of golden cobblestones shows the names of local children born under a full moon.
Lausanne, Switzerland
Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.
Lausanne, Switzerland
Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.
Portland, Oregon
The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Looking like nothing more than a cartoon deserted island, this tiny sandbar is home only to a single umbrella.
Clifton, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Starting with nothing more than discarded conch shells, one man has built an island/bar that would make Jimmy Buffet jealous.
La Pompe, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
This century old flensing port is a remnant of a culture for whom whaling is still legal.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
These eclectic homes nestled into the cliffs of a Caribbean island were built entirely from scavenged materials.
Saint George's, Grenada
A gallery of underwater art that can be visited by man and fish alike.
Midway, Utah
This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.
Italy
According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.
Tremosine, Italy
This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.