A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

Rainforest filled with record-holding eucalyptus.

Granite rocks that concentrate waves into powerful jets.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

The world's largest bioluminescent area was undiscovered by science until 2005.

A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

Island of trash twice the size of Texas floats in the Pacific.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

Okinawan dining in a twenty foot tall, man-made tree house overlooking Naha Harbor.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.