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Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

Buying your medicine at this particular pharmacy is like taking a trip back in time.

The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you've been transported to an Italian villa.

Long before air conditioning, Persian architects found an ingenious way to cool off.

A parade of antique steeds offers a quirky ride through history.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.

This ancient fortress in Iran was once the oldest and largest treasury in the world.

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.

More than 2 million Olive Ridley sea turtles are hatched from this mass nesting ground every year.

Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

Why a column on the entrance is inscribed with a verse from the Quran is one of Sicily's many mysteries.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.