A living museum of curated gardens honors 4,000 years of agriculture in the Santa Cruz River basin.

This airfield played a key role in both World War II and the Cold War.

It's said that visitors can "see" Tasmania inside this cave.

Leonardo da Vinci was one of many to find inspiration in this unique, rocky landscape in Tuscany.

A tiny town’s tiny museum with some gigantic residents.

Once disputed as the largest sundial in the world.

This one-room doctor's office has been moved twice, and now lives on as a museum.

Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.

The history of Tel Aviv told through a work of art.

This bronze statue commemorates the strange and beloved mascot of UC Irvine—the only university to be represented by a giant anteater.

Memorials are nearly all that remains of this Arkansas prison camp, where thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated during World War II.

More than 10,000 small mirrors cover the curved surface of the world's second-largest solar oven, located in a remote village in Uzbekistan.

The shiny silver little brother to Copenhagen's Little Mermaid statue.

Located in a remote mountain valley in Yamagata Prefecture, these hot springs have attracted bathers for over 450 years.

The world's largest collection of ship figureheads includes figures from legends and history alike, from Sir Lancelot to Abraham Lincoln.

A collection of modern and vintage pinball machines housed in the cellar of a 15th-century building.

Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.

A statue of the heroic plumber stands outside a company that bluffed its way into being Nintendo's Scandinavian distributor.

A touching statue dedicated to Japan's first therapy dog.

The spherical grains of white quartz sand give every step on this Australian beach a distinctive sound.

A waterfall rushing through a lush fern gully in Australia's Tarra-Bulga National Park.

A larger-than-life version of the hat beloved by hunters, outdoorsmen, and Holden Caulfield.

In the little-known Pine Forest Range in northwestern Nevada, a natural lake of glacial origin.

The ruins of an 18th-century mansion that was once named "Mistake" by the man who had it built.