The world's largest pineapple building honors Bathurst's favorite fruit.

This historic observatory was established to keep shipwrecks from littering the Cape of Good Hope.

Haven for Cape Fur Seals, until the Ring of Death of jumping Great White Sharks arrives.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.