Key West, Florida
Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society and Museum
The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.
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Key West, Florida
The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.
Key West, Florida
The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.
Key West, Florida
A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.
Key West, Florida
An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.
Berlin, Germany
Along the banks of the Teltow Canal in southwestern Berlin stands one of the city’s most controversial buildings, a hulking Brutalist laboratory that looks more like a warship than a research facility.
Füssen, Germany
Two unremarkable-looking rocks on a cobblestone street are actually ancient wanderers; one a 150-million-year-old limestone, the other a 1.8-billion-year-old granite.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.
Sainte-Marie-du-Lac-Nuisement, France
A museum preserving the remnants of three villages submerged by Der Lake.
Berlin, Germany
An important message and optimistic splash of color in a troubled neighborhood.
Valencia, Spain
Across Valencia lie the remains of three ancient fortifications built centuries apart: a Roman enclosure, an Islamic expansion, and a medieval Christian wall.
Bochum, Germany
The world’s largest museum dedicated to mining, complete with an underground show cave.
Bordeaux, France
This striking sculpture was created in memory of enslaved people, acknowledging that the city of Bordeaux was France’s second-largest slave-trade port.
Schwerin, Germany
A carved figure embodying the palace’s pint-sized but protective spirit rooted in local folklore.
Berlin, Germany
A curious memorial to the Berlin Wall, German division, the war, and those who died at the wall.
Cochem, Germany
This 12th-century castle majestically overlooks the city and the beautiful Mosel River valley.
Koblenz, Germany
A monumental golden thumb rises as an iconic homage to Nouveau Réalisme, bold in scale and unapologetic in spirit.
Garching bei München, Germany
An enormous hand-carved and painted pole.
Brussels, Belgium
The original shop where the iconic Belgian praline was invented.
Gibraltar
Many of the tombs contain victims of yellow fever epidemics.
Fort Myers, Florida
Established to give visitors a taste of Lee County’s natural bounty, this shop offers fresh fruit, soft-serve ice cream, and preserves.
New York, New York
Some of the world’s most popular songs came out of this building.
Berlin, Germany
One of the best-preserved pieces of DDR propaganda in Berlin.
Prague, Czechia
A beautiful window with the old Tesla Radio company logo.