Bomarzo, Italy
The Monsters of Bomarzo
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
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Bomarzo, Italy
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
Barcelona, Spain
This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.
Issaquah, Washington
A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.
Iceland
The oldest church in Iceland is one of the few to feature ornate decoration.
Lisbon, Portugal
Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.
Mono County, California
This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.
Rhyll, Australia
A conservation sanctuary for rescued koalas, some of which were saved from devastating Australian bushfires.
Bridgehampton, New York
A fire station-turned-church-turned-museum dedicated to the work of seminal light artist Dan Flavin.
London, England
A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.
Bestari Jaya, Malaysia
Malaysian fireflies create a dazzling display as thousands light up in unison.
Seoul, South Korea
The world's longest bridge fountain has hundreds of nozzles that create a beautiful, illuminated spectacle.
San Jose, California
Anyone can control this glittery light installation with just a phone call.
Canberra, Australia
This copper-coated, multi-arched dome is surrounded by a moat and lights up at night.
Tamura, Japan
These wondrously illuminated caverns extend under the mountains of the Fukushima Prefecture.
Madrid, Iowa
A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.
Chicago, Illinois
A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.
Vaadhoo, Maldives
Bioluminescence in the reefs of the Maldives causes the sea to glow like a starry night sky.
Villa Martelli, Argentina
This giant power line tower is a robot that can express its moods in neon.
Waitomo, New Zealand
Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.
Tbilisi, Georgia
With over 10,000 lights, this engineering marvel lights up the city after dark.
Portugal
This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.
Wilkieston, Scotland
Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.
Moab, Utah
It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.
Outer Hebrides, Scotland
An impressive piece of infrastructure that seems outsized when considering it serves an island with a population of less than 300.