La Junta, Colorado
Picketwire Canyon Trackway
The largest dinosaur trackway in North America is tucked away among this canyon's ghosts and archaeological gems.
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La Junta, Colorado
The largest dinosaur trackway in North America is tucked away among this canyon's ghosts and archaeological gems.
Sorrento, Italy
An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.
United States / Canada
The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.
London, England
A small museum that celebrates the history and culture of the LGBTQ community in England.
Hovea, Australia
This 1800s former railway tunnel is now part of a heritage walking trail.
Dublin, Ireland
This supermarket offers shoppers a window into the past alongside their groceries.
Warminster, England
The longest hedge maze in the world.
Tuscumbia, Alabama
You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.
Des Plaines, Illinois
Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.
Florida
This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.
Toronto, Ontario
A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.
Mogollon, New Mexico
This remote camping site offers incredible stargazing opportunities.
Pulpí, Spain
Peek into a cave of giant, glimmering crystals.
Punta Gorda, Florida
Some believe Ponce de León's mystical spring lurks right under a public drinking fountain.
Queens, New York
A former Tibetan monk made a name for himself selling some of the best beef momos in New York.
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Flowers have mysteriously appeared on her effigy every day for the last 150 years.
North Macedonia
This 3,800-year-old site contains markers used to study the movement of the sun and moon and create a lunar calendar.
Goseck, Germany
A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.
Callanish, Scotland
The mysterious megaliths have enchanted and intrigued visitors for thousands of years.
Sisian, Armenia
Called the "Armenian Stonehenge," this ring of menhirs pierced with holes may be a prehistoric astronomical observatory.
Iran
A sophisticated astronomical tower built by one of the greatest Persian scholars of the Islamic Golden Age.
Chichen Itza, Mexico
No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.
Nageezi, New Mexico
A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.