Brussels, Belgium
Royal Greenhouses of Laeken
Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.
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Brussels, Belgium
Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.
Castle Hill, New Zealand
The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."
Cañon City, Colorado
The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.
Ennetbürgen, Switzerland
The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.
Caraș-Severin, Romania
Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.
Pisgah Forest, North Carolina
Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?
Corinne, Utah
An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.
Lichtenstein, Germany
A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.
Clark County, Nevada
The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.
San Francisco, California
A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Raufarhöfn, Iceland
This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.
Alamosa, Colorado
When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.
Kazanlak, Bulgaria
An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.
Grand Marais, Minnesota
Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.
Paris, France
The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.
Tokyo, Japan
Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.
Graniteville, Vermont
Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.
Denver, Colorado
A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.
North Bend, Washington
Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.
Portland, Oregon
Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.
Waxahachie, Texas
A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.