Nara, Japan
Tōdai-ji Daibutsuden (The Great Buddha Hall)
This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.
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Nara, Japan
This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.
Yoro, Japan
Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.
Fujinomiya-shi, Japan
A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.
Kyoto, Japan
The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.
Townsend, Tennessee
Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.
Sparta, Tennessee
Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.
Morristown, Tennessee
All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."
Chattanooga, Tennessee
The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.
Sevierville, Tennessee
Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.
Heber Springs, Arkansas
A wild trout fishery in Arkansas.
Memphis, Tennessee
Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?
Memphis, Tennessee
The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.
Gurdon, Arkansas
A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.
Sunspot, New Mexico
High in the Sacramento Mountains, a facility dedicated to studying the sun.
Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico
This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his moniker to peaks.
Des Moines, New Mexico
This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.
Silver City, New Mexico
These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.
New Mexico
Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.
Quemado, New Mexico
In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Nageezi, New Mexico
A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.
El Prado, New Mexico
These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.