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

The home of a 19th-century author who brought African-American folktales to the mainstream is now Atlanta’s oldest house museum.

A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.

The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.

The centerpiece of the Delta Blues Museum is a wooden sharecropper’s cabin that once housed a titan of blues music.

This small museum inside a larger sports complex honors the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal for the U.S., and his life of achievement and struggle.

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

The childhood home of the legendary blues guitarist and singer.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

In what is rumored to be an intentional act of spite, this memorial almost completely obscures the nearby grave of a senior officer.

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

The story behind this beloved toy—named for Theodore Roosevelt and owned by his grandson—is more complicated than you might guess.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

Stand at the point where the two mightiest rivers in the United States converge.

Built around 1723, this is the oldest surviving home in the U.S.'s oldest colonial city.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.