Beijing, China
The Forbidden City
The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.
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Beijing, China
The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.
Jasper, Alberta
This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.
Improvement District No. 12, Alberta
Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.
Maple Ridge, British Columbia
A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.
Alberta
A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.
Vancouver, British Columbia
What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.
Drumheller, Alberta
Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian Badlands.
Vancouver, British Columbia
A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.
Banff, Alberta
Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.
North Vancouver, British Columbia
This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.
West Dover, Nova Scotia
Eastern Canada's ocean playground.
Kyiv, Ukraine
The deepest metro station in the world.
Kyiv, Ukraine
340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.
Nairobi, Kenya
This wildlife trust is dedicated to orphaned elephant rescue and conservation.
Nairobi, Kenya
Strolling through these vintage locomotives offers a surprising amount of insight into the history of Kenya.
Kenya
Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”
Nairobi, Kenya
Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.
Nairobi, Kenya
Located in Nairobi National Park, this animal orphanage is the oldest of its kind in Kenya.
Nairobi, Kenya
Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.
Barcelona, Spain
The former 1920s mansion of a prominent Catalan developer was used as the Soviet Embassy during the Spanish Civil War, and there is still a bunker below the garden.
Barcelona, Spain
18th century anatomical amphitheater of the Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona.
Barcelona, Spain
A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.
Barcelona, Spain
One of Europe's largest supercomputers is housed inside of a disused chapel.
Barcelona, Spain
This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.