Discovered in a peat bog, these horned helms come from a thousand years before the Viking Age.

The first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature came from the foothills of Appalachia.

Inside this art museum resides one of Glasgow's most famous musical instruments.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

An ancient Roman temple first dedicated to an emperor's wife is now a church.

This liminal destination combines creaky carnival rides, a classic car museum, and luck-of-the-draw flea market finds surrounded by dust and drive-in movie screens.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

A beautiful hidden gem in central West Virginia.

This portion of a lovely Belize beach is infested with (harmless) sharks and rays.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

Visit a replica of the estate where Aaron Burr allegedly plotted a treasonous scheme against the United States.

Nordic giants resurrected from the sea and restored to their former greatness.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

This university transit system is a 1970s vision of the future.

An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.

A black sand beach where glacial fragments wash ashore and look like sparkling diamonds.

Two gems of Beaux Arts architecture that have been sitting vacant for years.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

More than 7,000 gallons of water pour over these cascading red quartzite waterfalls every second.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.