The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

A Red Hook dive bar that is holding onto its roots.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

The design of the Palacio Salvo has been described as "a lighthouse on top of a building."

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!