Australia's only active volcanoes and highest peak are located on these remote islands thousands of miles away from the mainland.

The city’s oldest gateway to the galaxy lies at the entrance to the Royal Botanical Gardens.

One of the only places where Earth’s mantle lies above water.

The clock that sets them all.

The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

Amazingly detailed marble cinerary urns that once held the cremains of Roman elite.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

An ancient engraving by the Cammeraygal people was uncovered in the transformation of a North Sydney industrial site.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

Inspiring Earthlings to Boldly Go.

A series of eerie metal stick figures are spread out over four square miles on the bed of a huge salt lake in the Australian Outback.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

A wealth of plants and horticultural curiosities fill this charmingly antique museum.

Hundreds of tiny dead butterfly eyes gaze down at diners in this Australian eatery.

A perfectly preserved abandoned criminal asylum in South Australia.

The colony of South Australia was proclaimed on a hot December day under a distinctively arched gum tree.

Finding the exact middle of a giant land mass is hard to determine, but this spot managed to do the trick.

A spectacular impact crater in the rugged heart of Central Australia.