Alexandria, Virginia
Torpedo Factory Art Center
A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.
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Alexandria, Virginia
A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Lisbon, Portugal
The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.
Miami, Florida
Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.
Prague, Czechia
A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.
Washington, D.C.
The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.
Vernazza, Italy
Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.
Washington, D.C.
A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.
Sarasota, Florida
A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.
Hawaii
This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.
Washington, D.C.
Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.
Paris, France
The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.
Jackson, New Hampshire
The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.
New York, New York
Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.
Washington, D.C.
The national park was once a plantation estate.
Washington, D.C.
The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.
Washington, D.C.
Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.
Paris, France
This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.
Dachau, Germany
The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.
Salem, Massachusetts
A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.