Chincoteague Island, Virginia
Misty of Chincoteague
The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Chincoteague Island, Virginia
The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.
Manchester, England
A tiny, heartwarming piece of art hiding in plain sight.
Chennai, India
The painted and decorated towers of this Hindu shrine were once the tallest structures in one of the oldest cities in India.
Verul, India
This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.
Datong, China
Explore this massive series of 45 caves and over 51,000 sculptures carved from cliffsides in China.
Yinchuan, China
China's beehive-shaped pyramids house the remains of a lost kingdom.
Qujing, China
A canvas of crops grow from vibrant red soil in this terraced farmland.
Lincoln, Montana
A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.
Pello, Finland
A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.
Guiyang, China
It took an artist 20 years to create this sprawling sculpture garden honoring the area's ancient inhabitants.
Tbilisi, Georgia
A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."
Georgia
A gleaming white and undulating tower marks the border between Georgia and Turkey.
Kumistavi, Georgia
This neon lit Georgian cave claims to hold the boulder Prometheus was chained to.
Batumi, Georgia
The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.
Tbilisi, Georgia
The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.
Volcano, California
Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.
Sonora, California
A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.
Fiddletown, California
An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.
Ione, California
One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.
Sonora, California
Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.
Twentynine Palms, California
The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.
Taichung City, Taiwan
Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.
El Paso, Texas
The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.
Syracuse, New York
A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.