This river island in Sierra Leone is home to impressive biodiversity and the country's first community conservation program.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

Come for the chanting, stay for the monastical vegan buffet.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.

Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.

Rainforest filled with record-holding eucalyptus.

Dilapidated ruins that once treated a notorious young serial killer, currently hosting vandals, squatters, and ghost hunters.

The only pollutant in the clear blue water is sunscreen.

A collection of outdoor mystical statues paying homage to indigenous Australians and ecological stewardship.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

A bronze sculpture of a monkey sits outside this factory, which has made an anise-flavored liqueur for over 150 years.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

A fabulously bizarre surrealist sculpture by the late artist Leonora Carrington.

This restaurant combines two Finnish traditions in one place: warm-weather relaxation and outdoor carpet-cleaning.

This bed and breakfast is steeped in history and offers guests a unique way to experience nature—glass igloos on a frozen lake.

This modernist island church incorporates the Finnish nature into its worship practices.

Fortifications built for a Soviet invasion that never came now sit abandoned in a losing battle against nature.

Finland's northernmost zoo is home to the country's only polar bears.