Fluffy and friendly alpacas nestled against the border of the beautiful Connemara region.

Get up close with some alligators at this roadside farm attraction.

View rare birds and interact with lemurs at this nonprofit run entirely by volunteers.

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

The adorable animals return to this nature reserve every fall to give birth to their pups.

Go inside a revolutionary, cage-less zoo where 70 species of monkeys roam free alongside their human visitors.

The home of pigs, snakes, chameleons, and the alleged largest bunny in the United States.

A unique zoological park home to over 30 species of wild cats, both big and small.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

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

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.