Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.