The first successful human heart transplant is depicted through wax figures at the hospital where it the surgery took place.

From atop a hill at the center of Cape Town, a cannon has been signalling the time since 1806.

A growing popular hipster market with over 100 local specialties and live music.

The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

This risky summer festival honors a historic volcanic eruption.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

This museum explores the history of policing and is also home to a very popular taxidermied duck.

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

The ruins of a resort and casino sit on the banks of this blue hole spring that pumps 70,000 gallons of warm, clear water every minute.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

This failed condo development was reborn as a street art hub.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

A tiny twin to Seattle's Fremont troll hides from the Florida sun under the Atlantic Boulevard drawbridge.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

This limestone outcropping was once a ceremonial site for ancient Native Americans.

This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.