Victoria, British Columbia
Cadboro-Gyro Park
Home to an octopus slide and a humorous playground-sized cryptid.
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Victoria, British Columbia
Home to an octopus slide and a humorous playground-sized cryptid.
Opelika, Alabama
A city park that once housed live spider monkeys and today features a working miniature train.
Meriden, Connecticut
Home of the Daffodil Festival, Castle Craig, and a ghostly hound.
Spring Hill, Florida
A live oak beside a Florida bike trail has become a shimmering, musical memorial.
Stanley, Idaho
Experience the wonders of a pristine night sky in this landscape free from light pollution.
Paris, France
A lush vertical garden blooming in the heart of Paris.
Breaks, Virginia
Zipline through the deepest canyon in the eastern United States.
La Jolla, California
Go deep on these fascinating fish, and get a bonus lesson on the importance of marine conservation.
La Jolla, California
A dramatic coastline that’s home to a rare pine tree.
Culebrillas, Ecuador
A quiet alpine lake where hikers pass alpacas and an old brewery.
Greenland
Welcome to the greenest place in Greenland.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
From a 1930s bathing beach to a 1970s dumping ground, this stretch of Buenos Aires is now its largest and wildest reserve.
Glemmingebro, Sweden
A split boulder left by the Ice Age and, according to legend, a hazard to your senses.
Kanab, Utah
Discover this sandstone alcove, a geologic wonder in southern Utah, that continues to slowly shape shift.
Tiverton, Nova Scotia
This massive rock column in Canada is perched on a corner of its base, seeming to defy gravity.
Prescott, Arizona
A maze-like landscape of globular rocks surrounding two Arizona lakes.
Koyulus, Kazakhstan
This small canyon is home to a treasure trove of geological oddities.
Le Morne, Mauritius
Dive into an undersea optical illusion off the coast of Mauritius.
Healy, Alaska
This often-overlooked canyon dazzles and intrigues with its many layers of colors, shapes and odd formations.
Ko Samui, Thailand
This natural rock formation has an anatomical aesthetic.
Walnut Cove, North Carolina
An ancient cave with connections to the American Revolution.
Alice Town, Bahamas
A mile-long, three-tiered cave hidden under a Bahamian island, complete with cathedral-like formations, bat colonies, and graffiti going back to the 1870s.
Buxton, England
A peaceful Elves-fairytale landscape hides an evil scar, a chasm so dark and daunting that for centuries it was believed to be the gateway to hell.
Kodaikanal, India
The forest hums softly, like it’s alive and listening, outside the “Devil’s Kitchen.”