For part of the year, this innovative greenhouse is painted white to keep the plants from getting scorched.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

This storybook New England home is actually a decommissioned lighthouse.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Native Australian lizards inhabit this garden celebrating Sydney and its sister city in China.

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

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

These flying foxes dangle from the trees around the library like fuzzy black fruit.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

Enormous, fluffy dogs frolic around this museum dedicated to a legendary Saint Bernard.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.

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

The world's only managed flock of mute swans was established as a factory for monk meat but is now an adorable sanctuary.

Terrapins of all colors and shapes are quick to bring fascination (and possibly long life) at this museum.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

This three-chambered cave is the only protected natural bat hibernaculum in Quebec.

The Australian lorikeets that like to tie one on in an annual drinking binge.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

Penn State's giant bug collection.

A garden of flying flowers.

Sip whey-based vodka at the first Native-owned distillery opened on a reservation in centuries.