This bridge's unique architecture honors nautical heritage and encourages self-awareness.

Denmark’s ultra-modern library hides a treasury of rare, unique books.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

These sub-farmland caves are home to a majestic stalactite known as the "Crystal King."

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.