The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

Pick up this rock and become an instant legend.

Europe’s most powerful hot spring supplies the surrounding region with hot water.

A fantastic reconstruction of a 10th-century Viking longhouse.

Dozens of large, brightly-colored paintings adorn the walls of the "street art capital of Iceland."

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

A little-known, but surprisingly large waterfall on the Little Truckee River in the northern Sierra Nevada.

Castro's communist ice cream mothership has been serving five-scoop "salads" for over 50 years.

This pagoda was once the central feature of a Buddhist temple that no longer exists.

This stone figurine was made more than 6,000 years ago and depicts a female deity of the Neolithic Vinča culture.

The ceiling of this cavern is dripping with multicolored marble stalactites.

The metal leaves on this tree are engraved with the names of Holocaust victims.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

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

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

This is the largest cemetery in Ireland and the first cemetery museum in the world.