Striking, enormous gold-plated sculpture of Buddha installed in the 19th century.

A mountain pass used by Prohibition-era bootleggers to facilitate traffic into and out of Canada from Vermont.

This installation turns abstract economics into a stark, public spectacle.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

An extraordinary collection of artifacts spanning 500 years of medical history.

This embalmed man is one of the best preserved mummies from the Canary Islands.

An architecturally unique lighthouse that had to be lifted up and moved to avoid falling in the sea.

This black sand beach was crafted from volcanic explosions including the historic Minoan eruption.

This boat represents the promise of undiscovered territory, a dream of hope, and progress and freedom for Iceland.

Does this statue depict Thor, or Jesus Christ? Nobody knows.

Remnant of a largely forgotten struggle over resource scarcity.

One of America's oldest continuously operating hotels offers a blend of rich history and historic architecture in the heart of Annapolis.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

Engraved in stone here are the signatures of everyone who signed the Declaration of Independence.

Essential to the history of early American religious freedom and home to the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence.

A mural honoring two trailblazing Supreme Court Justices—Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The house where Lincoln drafted the Emancipation Proclamation.

The thirteen wooden beams protruding from this historical building were once part of a hydraulic clock.

Situated in a bustling intersection, this "mobile" monument that honors local veterans from five different wars has moved several times but appears to have found its final resting place.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

A never-finished memorial to the heroes of the Napoleonic War has become "Scotland's Folly."

Inside a Scottish castle hangs the tattered remains of a flag with murky origins and supposed magic powers.