Parks

A statue of the early navigator stands overlooking the land he first surveyed.

The charming storybook building now houses a small police museum.

Stumbling upon this whimsical wooded garden is like stepping into an enchanted forest full of philosophical musings.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

Every weekend, people gather here for a brief chance to see their loved ones on the other side of the United States–Mexico border.

A 2,000-year-old wine press hidden in an overlooked park in Tel Aviv.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

An archaeological treasure trove towers over the valley of Chiavenna.

The humble field where the first Major League Baseball game was played.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

Joe Cocker's 1988 concert at this site in East Germany marked a changing sea tide that would eventually lead to reunification.

A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.

A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

The old tradition of drying laundry on poles in the public green is still guaranteed by Glasgow city law.

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.