Make it an offering.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

Construction of Barcelona's iconic (but controversial) church is expected to be completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

Now a memorial, this factory was once used as a concentration camp for artists by the Vichy government.

An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

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

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

No one is sure if the world's fourth-largest diamond had been found in a rubbish heap or was pawned by Napoleon's mom.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."