There are thousands of weird and wonderful sites you can experience around the world,

visiting glowworm caves in New Zealand.

You get asked to look up to the ceiling and you see what looks like a whole galaxy up there.

To crossing a canyon on a hand-woven bridge in Peru.

Imagine a kind of suspension bridge thinks sort of Indiana Jones style

about 50 feet across hanging over a rushing river and it is woven entirely by hand out of

grass. Coming up the folks from Atlas Obscura recommend some of their favorites.

Get a taste of the longing that finds its voice in the music of Portugal.

And although you know it's never going to come back, you don't let go.

You keep loving that which you have lost and that is so bad.

And learn how to catch the sky in the Hebrides islands of Scotland.

And the stars fall from the heaven and are reflected in the sea.

And if you put your hands through the water you're actually

holding the storms. There's magic in the hour ahead on travel with Rick Steve's.

Sometimes the best cure for the blues is a sad song.

Coming up on today's travel with Rick Steve's friends from Lisbon

reveal what makes the melancholic music of Portugal so beautiful.

And a guide from the Outer Hebrides tells us how living 30 miles off the

mainland preserves a special way of life. We're at 877333 Rick and Radio at Rick Steves.

com. Most of the world's weirder wonders never make it into the guidebooks.

The folks at Atlas Obscura are here to tell us about some of the strangest things they've found

and that they profile in their best-selling guide to global

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