Avery Island, Louisiana
Tabasco Museum and Factory
For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.
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Avery Island, Louisiana
For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.
Beverly Hills, California
The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.
U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado
Air Force Academy Chapel made of 100 identical tetrahedrons works to inspire those of all religions.
Mountain View, California
One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.
Bolzano, Italy
Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.
Newark, Ohio
An office built to look like a giant basket.
Culberson County, Texas
The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.
Alamada, Philippines
This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.
Cusco, Peru
The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.
Dublin, Texas
This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.
Celina, Ohio
A county library in rural Ohio houses one of the finest mineral collections in the world.
London, England
A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.
Datong, China
Explore this massive series of 45 caves and over 51,000 sculptures carved from cliffsides in China.
New Zealand
Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.
Creissels, France
The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.
Ajanta, India
Rock-cut cave complex filled with ancient Buddhist artwork.
Nairobi, Kenya
Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.
Helsinki, Finland
A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.
Costa Mesa, California
A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.
Washington, D.C.
Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."
Gladbrook, Iowa
A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.