Charlotte, North Carolina
McGill Rose Garden
This scented city oasis was a labor of love.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Charlotte, North Carolina
This scented city oasis was a labor of love.
Charlotte, North Carolina
A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.
Wilmington, North Carolina
Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.
Livermore, California
The longest burning light bulb in the world.
Inyo County, California
The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.
Grand Marais, Minnesota
Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This is the house that spite built.
Gablenz, Germany
This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.
Yachats, Oregon
On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.
Gerlach, Nevada
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.
Ishinomaki, Japan
On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.
New York, New York
Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.
New York, New York
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
Calhan, Colorado
Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.
Sorrento, Italy
An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.
Key West, Florida
These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.
Yamanouchi, Japan
Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.
San Francisco, California
A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.
Page, Arizona
Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.
Ashmore, Illinois
This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.
Nashville, Tennessee
This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.