Kailua, Hawaii
Ulupō Heiau
Hidden behind a YMCA stands the remains of a ceremonial site that dates back hundreds of years, whose ground is still considered sacred to many Hawaiians.
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Kailua, Hawaii
Hidden behind a YMCA stands the remains of a ceremonial site that dates back hundreds of years, whose ground is still considered sacred to many Hawaiians.
Aztec, New Mexico
The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.
Anse Royale, Seychelles
You can find more than 200 species of tropical plants at this garden owned by a former ambassador.
Franklin, Massachusetts
America's first public lending library began with a gift from Benjamin Franklin.
Lochiel, Australia
This salt lake in South Australia features seasonal color changes and its very own loch monster.
Spaulding, California
At the edge of the high desert, California's second-largest natural lake is home to a unique subspecies of trout adapted to its alkaline waters.
Qatar
Four steel monoliths stand in the Qatari desert, in a breathtaking work of large-scale art by Richard Serra.
Berlin, Germany
The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.
Austin, Texas
This small stone building, the final work of a renowned artist, offers a peaceful environment with radiant, colorful glass windows .
Corinne, Utah
This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.
Wageningen, Netherlands
A Dutch museum preserves the world's most diverse collection of vertical slices of soil.
Nieuwpoort, Belgium
A massive, gleaming sea turtle with a rider atop its shell looks out over the horizon.
Gerlach, Nevada
A remote, little-known natural arch in granite in the desert of northwestern Nevada.
Jensen, Utah
Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
A massive stone fox oversees a Rotterdam elementary school crosswalk.
Viskafors, Sweden
A flock of peculiar-colored sheep graze in this small Swedish town.
Nuremberg, Germany
A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.
Stratford, Connecticut
This eclectic homestead is home to a miniature windmill and Connecticut's last tollbooth.
Singapore
An artist crafted this lonely left hand as an imagined relic from Singapore's history.
Fallon, Nevada
Two craters, which probably erupted within the last 1,500 years and are now filled by alkaline lakes, represent Nevada's youngest known volcanic activity.
Charolles, France
An interactive museum and restaurant devoted to a prestigious breed of cattle.
Jonathans, Lesotho
Take a step into the Cretaceous Period with these preserved dinosaur tracks.
Tanzania
Over the course of its history, this tiny island has held enslaved people in transit and served as a quarantine zone. Today, it's a giant tortoise sanctuary.
South Burlington, Vermont
A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.