The lowest point in South Dakota and the source of the Minnesota River.

One of just a few cities in the world to base their center of government on an island. Others: Paris and Osaka.

The oldest university museum west of the Mississippi retains its 19th century feel.

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

You can climb to the summit of Black Mountain, as long as you sign the waiver.

A monument to a Native American leader who was known for never breaking a promise and met his end after signing a deal with white settlers.

The childhood home of one of Ohio's favorite sons, pilot and war hero Eddie Rickenbacker.

Watch the ships come in on Michigan's 210 ft. high observation deck in Sault Ste. Marie.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

A glass and sculpture wonderland forms an oasis in a remote part of Kenya.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

The only statue of its kind to commemorate Washington's beginnings as an officer of the British Colonial Militia.

Turkish adventurer antiques in the heart of the Grand Bazaar.

1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.

Ancient serpentine sacrifice holder that has stood the test of time.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.