The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

A collection of outdoor art by renowned muralist Robert Dafford depicts the history of a flooded city.

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

This historic 19th-century building was the center of British trade and diplomacy in Taiwan.

Nestled between the Sicao Green Tunnel and Dazhong Temple, an antiquated exhibition hall boasts the complete skeletons of mother and child sperm whales.

A museum commemorates what was once the largest freight station in Taiwan.

On the roof of the oldest department store in Tainan stands a Shinto shrine dating back to the 1930s.

A Taiwanese garden teems with the retired statues of the island's former dictator.