The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.