Seattle, Washington
‘A Sound Garden’
A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.
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Seattle, Washington
A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.
Kassel, Germany
A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.
Odda, Norway
Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.
Naucalpan, Mexico
An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.
Kaneohe, Hawaii
A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Joshua Tree, California
Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.
Mitchell, Oregon
Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.
Farmington, New Mexico
Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.
Averøy, Norway
A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.
Groom Lake, Nevada
In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Barcelona, Spain
Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.
Haines Falls, New York
A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.
Kalabaka, Greece
Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.
Hellam, Pennsylvania
Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.
Lake Wales, Florida
Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.
Portland, Oregon
A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.
Puerto Río Tranquilo, Chile
Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.
Portland, Oregon
A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.