San Francisco, California
Palace of Fine Arts
The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.
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San Francisco, California
The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.
Memphis, Tennessee
Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.
Memphis, Tennessee
The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.
Cherrapunjee, India
Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.
Buldhana, India
This rare basalt crater lake is used to study the Moon and Mars.
Lausanne, Switzerland
A constellation of golden cobblestones shows the names of local children born under a full moon.
Brussels, Belgium
A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.
Bradenton, Florida
These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.
Film City, Qatar
A creepy, deserted mock Arabian village can be found in the middle of the Qatari desert.
Gerlach, Nevada
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.
Egmont, British Columbia
The water swaps direction twice a day, whipping into a frenzy of whirlpools and rapids.
Bahamas
This isthmus in the Bahamas narrowly separates the roiling Atlantic from the cool Bight of Eleuthera.
East Warburton, Australia
Woven tree art gives this towering Australian woodland a touch of mystical whimsy.
Tambopata, Peru
One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.
Karlukovo, Bulgaria
The ceiling of Prohodna Cave in northern Bulgaria affords a peek at the sky via two deity-sized-eye-shaped holes.
Eugene, Oregon
This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.
Laurel, Maryland
A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.
São Paulo, Brazil
The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.
Marmore, Italy
Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.
Hereford, England
Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.
Zutphen, Netherlands
Unchanged for centuries, this medieval library keeps its books in chains.