Tervuren, Belgium
Royal Museum for Central Africa Natural History Collections
A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.
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Tervuren, Belgium
A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.
Canberra, Australia
From a distance, this statue of an eagle looks like a giant chicken on a stick.
Doha, Qatar
This fountain pays homage to Qatar's history of pearling, the primary industry before oil.
Salamanca, Spain
An unusual but excellent display created in the 1930s as propaganda against the Freemasons.
Carrabelle, Florida
Tucked away in the forests of North Florida resides a 19th-century lighthouse.
Tokyo, Japan
The buildings are among the few Frank Lloyd Wright structures still standing in Japan.
Lower Beeding, England
This breathtakingly beautiful botanical garden is home to a mob of wonderful wallabies.
Laconia, Greece
This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.
London, England
The famous polar explorer stands outside the Royal Geographical Society's headquarters.
Salaspils, Latvia
This former Nazi labor camp is now a poignant memorial, complete with giant Soviet-style monuments.
Elbow Cay, Bahamas
In the Bahamas sits a lighthouse that is among the last of its kind.
Honolulu, Hawaii
Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O‘ahu.
Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador
This historic lighthouse has been reincarnated as the perfect picnic place.
Volgograd, Russia
The world's tallest statue of a woman wields the world's tallest sword and is at risk of toppling over.
Folkestone, England
A winding cave grotto walkway built to provide employment for veterans after World War I.
Ypres, Belgium
This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.
Alaska
The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.
Washington, D.C.
For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.
Hilo, Hawaii
This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.
Talacre, Wales
This 1776 beacon on the coast of Wales is said to have a ghost called Raymond, the last lighthouse keeper.
Tosashimizu, Japan
This retro underwater observation tower would make the perfect lair for a sea-loving villain.
Dunnet, Scotland
The most northern place on the mainland of Great Britain.
New York, New York
This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.
Asheville, North Carolina
A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.