Portland, Oregon
The Grotto
A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.
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Portland, Oregon
A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.
Seattle, Washington
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
Margate City, New Jersey
Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."
Abiquiu, New Mexico
Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.
Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.
Jackson, Wyoming
One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.
Oaxaca, Mexico
A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.
Santa María del Tule, Mexico
The stoutest tree in the world.
Nairobi, Kenya
The farmhouse owned by the Danish author who wrote "Out of Africa" is now a museum honoring her legacy.
Nairobi, Kenya
Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.
Nairobi, Kenya
Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.
Barcelona, Spain
Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.
Barcelona, Spain
Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.
Palermo, Italy
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
Queens, New York
An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.
Chimayo, New Mexico
This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.
Vieques, Puerto Rico
The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.
Memphis, Tennessee
Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.
Memphis, Tennessee
A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.
Memphis, Tennessee
Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.
Memphis, Tennessee
The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.