Alberta's Pipestone Creek Bonebed is one of the densest fossil sites in the world. This nearby museum showcases some of the best finds from its "river of death."

The oldest city park in Walla Walla is home to hundreds of birds, from wood ducks to white peacocks.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

More than 12,000 years ago, this park was a playground for mastodons.

Over a millennium ago, this site on the shores of Lake Titicaca was home to a city of more than 10,000 people.

Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.

This vast, pristine wilderness is home to a rare subspecies of black bear.

Known as "Toronto's Flatiron."

A life-sized recreation of the megafauna that once roamed this region is a feature at the birthplace of American paleontology.

The natural history of Utah is on full display inside this museum.

Profile of a sleeping person 4km long in 250m high cliffs.

The statue of the famous elephant who was the original source of the word "jumbo".

The giant birds honor two native North American species.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

This observation tower is a longstanding, 1960s landmark in the Thousand Islands region of Canada.

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

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

A rattlesnake museum showcasing over 30 species, in a century-old building that used to be the general store in this tiny West Texas town.

Fifty-odd dinosaur footprints are preserved on this strip of mountain cliff along with ancient ripple marks.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.