Buchanan, Virginia
Buchanan Swinging Bridge
Sway your way across Virginia’s longest river on a rickety wooden bridge.
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Buchanan, Virginia
Sway your way across Virginia’s longest river on a rickety wooden bridge.
Roanoke, Virginia
This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.
Roanoke, Virginia
An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.
Roanoke, Virginia
Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.
Paris, France
A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.
Paris, France
Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.
Paris, France
With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.
Paris, France
This tower is one of the best-preserved (and least-visited) remnants of medieval Paris.
Paris, France
Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.
Paris, France
What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.
Paris, France
This stone angel is one of the biggest caryatids in all of Paris.
Paris, France
France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.
Paris, France
A lush vertical garden blooming in the heart of Paris.
Paris, France
Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.
Paris, France
A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.
Paris, France
Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.
Nanjemoy, Maryland
The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.
Washington, D.C.
The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.
Ashburn, Virginia
The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
The statue honors a beloved bird that once roamed St. George's Market.
Dublin, Ireland
This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.
Dublin, Ireland
More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.
Dublin, Ireland
An enigmatic monument to the Irish revolutionary who plotted an uprising against British rule.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
For part of the year, this innovative greenhouse is painted white to keep the plants from getting scorched.