Tower, Minnesota
Soudan Underground Mine State Park
Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.
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Tower, Minnesota
Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.
Taipei, Taiwan
Looking for a crappy restaurant? Pull up a porcelain bowl and enjoy your meal.
Reserve Jangal Masrur Joni-I, India
15 monolithic temples emulate an eroding sand castle.
Kgatleng, Botswana
Local legend has it that the first humans were created in the pools here, leaving their footprints behind in the rock.
Iqaluit, Nunavut
This igloo-shaped landmark in Iqaluit serves as the seat of the Diocese of the Arctic.
Arlington, Virginia
A memorial dedicated to the famed North Pole explorer appropriately sits at the far edge of Arlington National Cemetery.
Tbilisi, Georgia
A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.
Pushkin, Russia
A model village fit for an emperor.
Ibadan, Nigeria
Not only does this library house unique Arabic manuscripts, but it was also designed to keep the building cool during warm days.
Binh An, Vietnam
Standing as a 12th-century architectural titan, this trio of brick structures boasts the tallest surviving Cham tower in Vietnam, reaching an impressive height of 38 meters.
Rijeka, Croatia
Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.
Somerville, Massachusetts
This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.
Hartford, Connecticut
An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.
San Jose, California
Three plaques mark the spot where the "forgotten father of broadcasting" worked.
Norfolk, Virginia
This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.
College Park, Maryland
The world's oldest continuously operating airport was founded by the Wright Brothers.
Evans City, Pennsylvania
The iconic grave markers from George A. Romero's 1968 horror masterpiece,Night of the Living Dead.
Hong Kong
26 Chinese banyan trees cling dramatically to a stone wall, overhanging the street below.
Singapore
Singapore's Ang Mo Kio Town Garden West is a social hotspot for songbirds and their humans.
Istanbul, Turkey
Climb a steep hill in 90 seconds on the second-oldest urban subway in the world.
Malo Polje, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bunski Kanal is a hidden natural wonder where the emerald Buna River dramatically merges with the mighty Neretva through a narrow limestone channel.
Madrid, Spain
This modest lottery shop draws hopefuls all year long, but come Christmas season, lines wrap around the block.
Eltville am Rhein, Germany
Kloster Eberbach is one of Europe’s best-preserved medieval Cistercian monasteries, founded in 1136 and renowned for its austere Romanesque architecture and historic wine cellars.
Detroit, Michigan
One of Detroit's most iconic fictional protectors, RoboCop, finally has a statue.