Lankaster is a research and conservation center specializing in orchids and tropical plants, located near the city of Cartago.

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

Everyone from Alan Ginsberg to The Rolling Stones has stopped by this classic dive bar.

One of New Zealand’s few castles boasts beautiful gardens, grand architecture, and a history filled with family drama.

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

This public art is inspired by a local Aboriginal creation story.

These flying foxes dangle from the trees around the library like fuzzy black fruit.

A 19th-century perch for spotting sailing ships now boasts one of the most iconic views in the Southern Hemisphere.

This rare effigy of the author spent years lost in storage.

A monument to the 4,114 Irish orphan girls who arrived in Australia between 1848 and 1850.

A statue of a Scottish cultural icon in central Sydney.

Though considered an eyesore by some, this boxy Brutalist high-rise plays a significant role in Sydney's past.

A Stockholm metro station is home to an escalator that is not only the longest in Sweden, but among the longest in the world.

Thomas Francis Meagher drowned here in 1867, but whether his death was an accident or a murder, nobody knows.

This remote Montana battlefield is the site of the Nez Perce Flight of 1877.

A memorial to the most decisive Native American victory of the Plains Indian War.

This record-setting hydraulic dam in the Montana badlands was one of FDR's most ambitious public works.

A small Montana town commemorates the dog who waited at the train station every day for his owner to return.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!