Memphis, Tennessee
Mud Island River Park
A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.
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Memphis, Tennessee
A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.
Ypres, Belgium
A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.
Lo-Reninge, Belgium
A taxus-tree to which Julius Caesar reputedly tied his horse.
Bruges, Belgium
Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.
Arecibo, Puerto Rico
The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.
Humacao, Puerto Rico
This small primate research island is teeming with playing, fighting wild monkeys.
Australia
This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.
Hillsboro, New Mexico
Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.
Sandia Park, New Mexico
"I did this all while you were watching TV."
Cedar Crest, New Mexico
Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.
Greatstone, England
Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.
Alghero, Italy
Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.
Naica, Mexico
A gargantuan crystal kingdom.
Luray, Virginia
An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Lincoln, New Mexico
The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.
Los Lunas, New Mexico
On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.
New Mexico
Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.
Elberton, Georgia
A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.
Athens, Georgia
A white oak with property rights.
Sierra Bullones, Philippines
Bohol's unusually shaped hills turn brown in the summer months.
Nye, Nevada
Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.