Zagreb, Croatia
Cat Caffe Zagreb
A safe sanctuary for rescued shelter cats with an imaginative, glitter-infused experience
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Zagreb, Croatia
A safe sanctuary for rescued shelter cats with an imaginative, glitter-infused experience
Zagreb, Croatia
This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.
Zărnești, Romania
A permanent woodland refuge in the Carpathian Mountains for European brown bears rescued from abuse and neglect
Udawalawa, Sri Lanka
Huge herds of Asian elephants can be seen walking, bathing, and just chilling at this Sri Lankan park.
Madagascar
The Great Tsingy has a smaller, rose-colored cousin.
Visaginas, Lithuania
Step inside a Soviet-designed nuclear power plant with RBMK reactors identical to the ones in Chernobyl.
Dublin, Ireland
A two-storey cabinet of wonders filled with the bizarre, the macabre, and the downright uncanny.
Tbilisi, Georgia
A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.
Kasekera, Tanzania
Only reachable by boat, a small Tanzanian national park is home to the chimpanzees that Jane Goodall spent her career studying.
Varzob, Tajikistan
A Soviet-era health spa complete with radioactive bathing and shock therapy.
Birchington-on-Sea, England
An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.
Tomioka, Japan
The World Heritage-designated site of Japan’s industrial revolution, once mistaken as a den of vampires.
Gyeongju, South Korea
From mid-September to early November, dreamy fields of pink muhly grass spring up all over South Korea.
Franeker, Netherlands
Home to the world's oldest functioning orrery.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
One of Amsterdam's narrowest houses is located right across the canal from its widest.
Bergamo, Italy
Beautifully decorated tarot cards from the Middle Ages.
Monteverde, Costa Rica
This wildlife refuge is home to more than 200 species of birds, as well as monkeys, lizards, and other wildlife.
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
An underground world of gorgeous, palatial metro stations designed as a nuclear shelter complex.
Khasab, Oman
Take the most scenic fjord landscape in Norway and add dramatic red cliffs, warm clear water, and playful dolphins.
Miskolc, Hungary
The only natural cave bath in all of Europe.
Sierpnica, Poland
An extensive network of secret tunnels was created for the Nazi project "Riese."
Bítov, Czechia
The castle in the romantic landscape of Podyjí houses what may be Europe's largest collection of taxidermy dogs.
Sárospatak, Hungary
An industrial site turned into Hungary's most cherished natural wonder.
Nye County, Nevada
The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.