This pre-Hispanic apartment complex also includes ancestral paintings that point to its military past.

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

An ice cream parlor chain that caters to vegans and pinball fans equally.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

People come from across the globe to swim in this lake believed to have healing properties.

A tribute to the Nirvana frontman hides beneath the bridge that was the singer's beloved hangout spot.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

This old-school café is famous for serving coffee, chilaquiles, and the Cuban Revolution.

A monument stands at one of the starting lines of the Trans-Canada Highway, formerly the longest uninterrupted highway in the world.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

This scenic Icelandic lava flow is named for a pair of Berserkers who were murdered, according to a famous Saga.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.