Monterey, California
Dennis the Menace Playground
This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.
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Monterey, California
This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.
Lancaster, California
Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.
Palmdale, California
The road plays 30 seconds of the Marine’s Hymn when driving over the grooved pavement.
Palmdale, California
See four top-secret US spy aircraft of the Cold War era, including the legendary SR-71 Blackbird and the A-12 Oxcart.
Monterey, California
One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.
Monterey, California
Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.
Pebble Beach, California
This lonesome Monterey cypress has survived centuries of wind, salt, and at least one attempt at arson.
Tehachapi, California
Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.
Irvine, California
Someone really, really wanted to save this fast-food icon from demolition.
Portland, Oregon
These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.
Cannon Beach, Oregon
A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.
Portland, Oregon
The magic's in the hole!
Paris, France
This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.
Barbados
This popular tourist cave was ignored for almost 200 years before being mined into an attraction.
Malé, Maldives
The exorbitant price of paradise.
Seychelles
A British general, a suggestive tree, a map of paradise.
Victoria, Seychelles
One of the oldest restaurants in the Seychelles.
Pier Ward, Seychelles
This vestige of Seychelles’s colonial past now resides in a busy intersection and didn’t chime for its first 96 years.
Roche Caiman, Seychelles
A schooner, nicknamed "The Unsinkable," with a long history of survival in the Indian Ocean.
Seychelles
The remains of a 19th-century school and living quarters are perched atop a mountain surrounded by a thick tropical forest.
Nairobi, Kenya
Kenyan restaurant is a carnivore's paradise, serving exotic meats at its ultimate 'Beast of a Feast.'
Kenya
Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.
Los Angeles, California
World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.