Costa Rica
Río Celeste
This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.
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Costa Rica
This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.
Guatuso, Costa Rica
The translucent turquoise hue of these natural swimming pools comes from a high concentration of minerals.
La Fortuna, Costa Rica
The same water that fills a luxury resort’s pools feeds these free hot springs in the rainforest.
Alajuela, Costa Rica
A park that allows you to get up close and personal with one of the world's largest open volcanic craters.
Athens, Greece
This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.
Batavia, Illinois
World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.
Anchorage, Alaska
The now-serene site of the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America.
Paradise, Michigan
These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.
El Segundo, California
Made famous by cable TV, this oddball collection of antiques and collectibles is a cut above the rest.
Hilo, Hawaii
This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.
Pepeekeo, Hawaii
These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.
Honolulu County, Hawaii
Taste rums made with heirloom sugarcane on the distillery's own estate.
Kapolei, Hawaii
One of Oahu’s best snorkeling and diving spots was created by warm water discharged from the nearby power plant.
Petoskey, Michigan
Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.
Harbor Springs, Michigan
A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.
Charlevoix, Michigan
In the main dining room, a nine-ton boulder caps the fireplace designed by local architect Earl Young.
Cass City, Michigan
Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.
Harbor Beach, Michigan
An easy-to-reach, century-old shipwreck in shallow and crystal clear waters.
Au Gres, Michigan
The very isolated Charity Island Lighthouse has been watching over Saginaw Bay since 1857.
Alpena, Michigan
This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
Seattle, Washington
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.