The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

Step aboard the first ship to circumnavigate North America.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

Canada shows its hockey pride with a giant stick.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

The water swaps direction twice a day, whipping into a frenzy of whirlpools and rapids.

Hundreds of tree trunks and Welwitschia flowers populate this living fossil haven.

This road winds through the steep coastal cliffside offering spectacular views for those who brave the drive.

This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.

An ancient Incan convent on Lake Titicaca's Island of the Moon.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

Built on the remains of one the Incas’ most important gathering spots, this square keeps the spirit of a fallen empire alive.

Every Sunday, Bogotá turns 75 miles of its city streets into a bicycle superhighway.

The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.