This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

An odd little fishing town that is inundated by tourists looking to be locked up in a cage and surrounded by great white sharks, because why not?

The original goat tower, the one that started it all.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

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

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.