Guatape, Colombia
Guatapé
The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.
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Guatape, Colombia
The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.
Bristol, England
Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.
Tintagel, England
It is said the legendary wizard once lived in this sea cave beneath Tintagel Castle.
Brištane, Croatia
This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.
Istanbul, Turkey
The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.
Isola San Giulio, Italy
A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.
Córdoba, Spain
A curious carving hides on a marble column in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.
Cold Spring, Minnesota
After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.
Toronto, Ontario
A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.
Seattle, Washington
Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.
Flourtown, Pennsylvania
This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.
Buffalo, New York
A 19th-century architectural wonder designed by the "father of the skyscraper."
Gildeskål, Norway
Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.
New York, New York
Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.
Sheffield, England
A tribute to the women who quietly kept the local steelworks alive during both world wars.
Ōmihachiman-shi, Japan
A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.
Cork, Ireland
A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine.
Toronto, Ontario
One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.
Blimbing, Indonesia
Bright Indonesian villages painted in a rainbow of competing color schemes.
Bodnant Hall, Wales
A breathtaking flower tunnel bursts with beautiful golden blossoms.
Inyo County, California
This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.
Santa Marta, Colombia
An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
The world's only bushplane museum captures the spirit of the early planes and pilots and their contributions to northern life in Canada.
Helsinki, Finland
This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.