Places Added by Sam

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

The only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name.

How would you like to dine in the same room where some of the Titanic's victims were embalmed?

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

A county library in rural Ohio houses one of the finest mineral collections in the world.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

Napoleon's childhood home is now open for people to explore the beginnings of France's short general.

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

The largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

A series of eerie metal stick figures are spread out over four square miles on the bed of a huge salt lake in the Australian Outback.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

This Italianate house was the childhood home of the prominent Canadian painter, Emily Carr.

A little Lady Liberty stands in the Norway town where the copper for the real thing came from.

A replica of the Statue of Liberty watches over the tomb of 72 Chinese revolutionaries.

The ancient ruins of an extinguished city amidst the bustle of a modern one.

The UFO capital of Australia is the outback’s answer to Roswell.