The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

See the rare bloom of the "Queen of the Night" cactus at one of the world's largest succulent collections.

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.