Uruguay
Isla de Lobos
This small island off the coast of Uruguay hosts the largest colony of sea lions and fur seals in the southern hemisphere.
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Uruguay
This small island off the coast of Uruguay hosts the largest colony of sea lions and fur seals in the southern hemisphere.
Falkland Islands
This remote stretch of sand is a penguin lover's paradise.
Bridgetown, Barbados
This stone commemorates the island's launch into international aviation.
Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe
A stone circle on the slopes of a Caribbean volcano commemorates the leader of an anti-slavery uprising.
Sint Willibrordus, Curaçao
This tiny tropical village was sick of anonymity so the locals made this sign, which actually changed the name of the town.
Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands
A sanctuary for sickly, stray, or wounded donkeys.
Willemstad, Curaçao
This living labyrinth made entirely of thorns is filled with art.
Santa Cruz, Aruba
A safe place for the wild donkeys of a hot vacation destination.
Willemstad, Curaçao
The floor of the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas is entirely covered in sand.
Ames, Iowa
Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.
Asheville, North Carolina
The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.
Charleston, South Carolina
South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.
Savannah, Georgia
A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.
Humble, Texas
In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
This is one really big nut.
Culberson County, Texas
The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.
College Station, Texas
Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Dripping Springs, Texas
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.
Spokane, Washington
This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.
Wallace, Idaho
After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.
Goldendale, Washington
A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.
Gerlach, Nevada
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.