Barcelona, Spain
Columns of the Temple of Augustus
The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.
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Barcelona, Spain
The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
A secret, ethereal waterfall beneath the picturesque gardens.
Chester Springs, Pennsylvania
This mill has been in continuous operation since before the country’s founding.
Kutztown, Pennsylvania
Decorative folk arts dot the countryside barns of Berks County.
Lenhartsville, Pennsylvania
This unusual rock formation in Berks County is nearly a mile long and may date from the Ice Age.
Zaragoza, Spain
This 11th-century fortress is now the seat of Aragon’s state legislature.
Zaragoza, Spain
Europe's largest river aquarium features freshwater species from around the world.
Zaragoza, Spain
This fantastical faceless sculpture in Spain is on the grandest scale.
Zaragoza, Spain
The Museum of the Forum of Caesar Augusta showcases the city's ancient Roman sewage system.
Lenox, Massachusetts
The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.
Dripping Springs, Texas
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.
Las Vegas, Nevada
One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.
Holland, Michigan
The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.
Paris, France
This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.
Paris, France
Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.
Paris, France
A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.
Paris, France
An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Paris, France
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.
Portland, Oregon
The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.
Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania
This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.
New York, New York
Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.
New York, New York
Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.