The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft perfume fragrances.

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

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

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

The world's largest pineapple building honors Bathurst's favorite fruit.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

George Martin's Caribbean recording studio now rots within the shadow of an active volcano.

A city continually buried under the ash of a volcano that has been erupting for more than 15 years.

This niche museum devoted to ancient religious artifacts is shaped like the very thing it displays.

Rusting, graffiti-covered tanks litter the beach of this island, once used by the U.S. military for target practice.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

A small Rwandan workshop where you'll find traditional works of art—made from cow dung.

Burial site of the world's most widely known researcher on the endangered mountain gorilla.

A magnificent winding road through a steep valley, with deep natural caverns at the bottom