The world's only flying boat museum honors a small Irish village that sent 20th-century aviation to new heights.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

The world's fifth tallest waterfall is a spectacular silver chute of water that cuts through the cloud forest in northern Peru.

Huge spherical rocks in the middle of the prairie.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

A domed disco abandoned since the '70s now attracts artists and explorers under its unique roof.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Every year locals give the bear a fresh coat of paint to preserve its signature goofy grin.

A sobering museum dedicated to landmines and the personnel working to remove them from Afghanistan.

Beautiful antiques and obscure engineering artifacts trace the evolution of phones from rare luxuries to ubiquitous.

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

One of the largest sand dunes in the world is nicknamed the "Scary Mountain" due to its steep slope and sharp incline.

Locals transformed this Canadian evergreen into a secret hangout with spectacular views of Vancouver's skyline.

This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.