At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

An out-of-the-way state park in Oregon that features both a picturesque waterfall and the ruins of a hydropower plant.

Every October, one of the largest migration of mammals in the world thunders through Boma National Park.

A fire lookout atop a glacial pinnacle is reached by climbing three vertiginous flights of stairs.

This propitious plastic porcine has been petitioning park visitors to pick up after themselves for more than 50 years.

A conservation sanctuary for rescued koalas, some of which were saved from devastating Australian bushfires.

A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.

This public bathroom takes the form of a 19th-century lighthouse that once stood on the spot.

This massive sculptural work outside of Paris was four decades in the making—and it's still not quite complete.

The half-finished remains of what would have been Scotland’s biggest piece of landscape art.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

These are probably the most beautifully-crafted toilets you've ever seen.

A former plant in one of the hubs of U.S. steelmaking has been turned into this museum celebrating the history of American industry.

The first national memorial to honor all women suffragists stands on land where suffragists were once imprisoned.

This haunting sculpture stands as a memorial to the torture victims of the Brazilian military dictatorship.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

A moving and macabre World War I-era painting by the great artist Otto Dix.

A short boardwalk through a swamp leads to the spot from which the Louisiana Purchase was surveyed.

A museum dedicated Germany's favorite drink and most well-known festival.

This unique bird reserve sits within an important fragment of Brazil's Atlantic rainforest.

Today this former Nazi concentration camp stands as a poignant memorial to the victims of fascism, and a warning from history.

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

This massive Maya archaeological site is home to the tallest man-made structure in Belize.

These cabins mark the site where our 11th president was born (probably).