The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

Twice a day, the water of the Petitcodiac River flows upstream in a surfable wave.

Iconic rock formations that allow for exploration during high or low tide.

These powerful, if squat, Canadian waterfalls flow in different directions depending on the time of day.

The highest tides in the world come in and out here twice a day, allowing you to essentially walk along the ocean floor.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

Watch the ships come in on Michigan's 210 ft. high observation deck in Sault Ste. Marie.

Beautiful scenery, history, science, and physics come together in this remnant of shipping lore.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

Public water fountains built during the Ottoman Era still stand throughout this seaside town.

Dine on superb local staples in a converted historic church.

A giant green dragon crawls down from the roof of the Providence Children's Museum.

One of the oldest family businesses in Reykjavík serves lamb-based hot dogs.

This family-run joint has been going whole hog for nearly 100 years.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

If Myrtle Beach is the mini golf capital of the world, this is its crowning glory.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

On an island south of Iceland, a large volcanic rock formation resembles an elephant.