The DunBear

Discover The DunBear in Scotland: 5 meters tall bear statue positioned on top of a mound.

Eagle Rock

Discover Eagle Rock in Los Angeles, California: The neighborhood of Eagle Rock is named after a gigantic boulder with a shadowy surprise.

Plimoth Patuxet

Discover Plimoth Patuxet in Plymouth, Massachusetts: Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

Hōryū-ji

Discover Hōryū-ji in Ikaruga, Japan: Home to the world's oldest wooden building.

The Auditor Statues

Discover The Auditor Statues in Butte, Montana: Multiple monuments to a grizzled old mutt that survived the landscape of Butte's treacherous Berkeley Pit.

Veryovkina Cave

Discover Veryovkina Cave in Gagra, Georgia: Veryovkina Cave is more than 1.3 miles deep—the deepest known in the world.

Lenoir Preserve

Discover Lenoir Preserve in Yonkers, New York: A beautiful, historic location open to the public.

Abandoned Hotel at Cala d’en Serra

Discover Abandoned Hotel at Cala d’en Serra in Sant Joan de Labritja, Spain: Originally slated to become a luxurious resort, this structure is now a graffiti haunt reclaimed by nature.

Mission Ruins of Venn’s Town

Discover Mission Ruins of Venn's Town in Seychelles: The remains of a 19th-century school and living quarters are perched atop a mountain surrounded by a thick tropical forest.

Church of Santa Maria di Cartignano

Discover Church of Santa Maria di Cartignano in Bussi Sul Tirino, Italy: The ruins of this once gorgeous medieval church are still standing, despite the region's constant flooding.

Graffiti Alley

Discover Graffiti Alley in Toronto, Ontario: A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

Road trip to Plodovoye

Plodovoye is a village located on the north-western shore of Lake Otradnoye in the Priozersky District of the Leningrad Region. It was formed in 1949 by merging several neighbouring villages and now is considered a large settlement with population numbe…

Bellesguard

Discover Bellesguard in Barcelona, Spain: One of Antoni Gaudí's least-visited works, an homage to Catalan patrimony that mixes neo-Gothic with Modernista forms.

Kelvingrove Pipe Organ

Discover Kelvingrove Pipe Organ in Glasgow, Scotland: Inside this art museum resides one of Glasgow's most famous musical instruments.

Proscenium Theatre

Discover Proscenium Theatre in Winnipeg, Manitoba: This little theatre at the end of the Urban Gallery in the Manitoba Museum plays silent films from stars who performed in Winnipeg.

Three “Roman” Bridges

Discover Hockenhull Platts in Tarvin, England: Three stone bridges straddling the River Gowy form part of the medieval road from London to Holyhead—despite a common nickname, they're not Roman.

‘La Leçon’ (‘The Lesson’)

Discover ‘La Leçon’ (‘The Lesson’) in Montreal, Québec: Immortalized in bronze, this frazzled student will be glued to his screen for centuries.

Xanthi Clock Tower

Discover Xanthi Clock Tower in Xanthi, Greece: This tower is all that remains of the mosque that once stood in the center of the city, before it was destroyed by fire in 1941.

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