Oslo, Norway
Forest of the Future Library
One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.
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Oslo, Norway
One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.
Halberstadt, Germany
Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.
Copenhagen, Denmark
The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.
San Francisco, California
A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.
Svalbard, Norway
This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.
London, England
A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.
London, England
A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.
Kyoto, Japan
The home of Mario and his friends
Coconut Creek, Florida
More than 20,000 butterflies can be seen at this spectacular park and research center.
Rumford, Maine
A larger-than-life dedication to the famous lumberjack and his loyal ox.
Portland, Oregon
This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.
Dublin, Ireland
A two-storey cabinet of wonders filled with the bizarre, the macabre, and the downright uncanny.
Gibraltar
Engineering ingenuity during the battle of Gibraltar.
Hakui, Japan
This “forbidden” sanctuary has managed to preserve a unique, ancient ecosystem.
Philippines
An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.
Aogashima, Japan
We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...
Crater Lake, Oregon
The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.
Monduli, Tanzania
A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.
Waimangu, New Zealand
The once and future home of New Zealand's famed Pink and White Terraces.
Callanish, Scotland
The mysterious megaliths have enchanted and intrigued visitors for thousands of years.
Chichen Itza, Mexico
No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.
Nageezi, New Mexico
A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.
Australia
This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.
Arecibo, Puerto Rico
The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.