Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

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.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

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

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.