Austin, Texas
Congress Bridge Bats
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
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Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Yosemite National Park, California
Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.
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.
Cahuita, Costa Rica
Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.
Portugal
A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.
Ellicott City, Maryland
Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.
Isle of Staffa, Scotland
This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.
Maisons-Alfort, France
The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.
Paris, France
Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.
Daniel Campos, Bolivia
A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.
Sciacca, Italy
A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.
Budapest, Hungary
Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.
Columbia, Maryland
A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.
England
Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.
Rome, Italy
The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.
San Jose, California
San Francisco Bay's ghost town.
Blois, France
A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.
Aswan, Egypt
The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.
Pisa, Italy
Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.
Borrego Springs, California
Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.
Calipatria, California
A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.
Los Angeles, California
The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.
Morocco
Sleepy fishing port not included on many maps.
Vernon, Florida
Ancient church constructed with a special wood that preserves prints from the past.