Katoomba, Australia
The Giant Stairway
A massive stairway that almost wasn't leads to one of Australia's most scenic vistas.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Katoomba, Australia
A massive stairway that almost wasn't leads to one of Australia's most scenic vistas.
Lemnos, Greece
A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.
Sydney, Australia
A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.
Littledean, England
A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.
Brest, Belarus
A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.
Sydney, Australia
This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.
Nottingham, England
This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.
Flourtown, Pennsylvania
This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.
Miami, Florida
This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.
Arthurs Seat, Australia
Largest maize maze in the Southern hemisphere built with GPS technology on more than two acres.
Mawnan Smith, England
The twists and turns of this serpentine maze are over 170 years old.
Bodmin, England
This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.
Saint Blazey, England
The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.
Kota Belud, Malaysia
These rat eating Giant Malaysian Pitcher Plants may have evolved to eat shrew poop.
Bristol, Florida
A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.
Saint Austell, England
400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.
Riga, Latvia
The statue of a legendary giant who carried Christ and shouldered the world's sins.
Riga, Latvia
A preserved oak tree about 3,500 years old found in Riga, Latvia.
Brattleboro, Vermont
Play everything you see at a museum dedicated to a town's historic organ industry.
Leiden, Netherlands
This public library and its impressive collection of academic books have not changed since the 17th century.
Mexico City, Mexico
A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.
Riga, Latvia
Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.