Dallas, Texas
The Museum of Money
A 28-exhibit museum about the history, culture, and oddities of money. Visitors stand in a cash shower, try to crack a vault, and discover what it's like to barter when no money is allowed.
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Dallas, Texas
A 28-exhibit museum about the history, culture, and oddities of money. Visitors stand in a cash shower, try to crack a vault, and discover what it's like to barter when no money is allowed.
Washington, D.C.
The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.
Zapote del Valle, Mexico
An outdoor spiritual site where a strange acoustic phenomenon creates a powerful, hollow echo when you speak from the center of a mosaic circle.
Manchester, England
A Victorian-era British railway viaduct has been transformed into an elevated garden.
Malmö, Sweden
The very rock that killed the stonemason marks his grave.
Arixa Ams, Namibia
An ancient Namibian rock pictograph of a white lady is actually a man.
Baltimore, Maryland
An antiquarian horologist’s mysterious home in Old Goucher.
Bramhall, England
This iconic building , which is very evocative of the county of Cheshire, is a genuine gem of Tudor, black and white, timber-framed architecture .
Barichara, Colombia
A local workshop makes Japanese-style paper out of everything from papyrus to pineapple leaves.
Trieste, Italy
A giant coin serves as a very unusual yet creative monument commemorating one of the most important people in the history of Trieste.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s lone surviving ancient pagoda dates back to the 14th century.
Maputo, Mozambique
It stands out for its elegant white neoclassical design and twin bell towers that define Maputo’s skyline and make it one of the city’s most recognizable landmarks.
Oslo, Norway
Once silenced for being off-key, this bell has found a new voice as an interactive public artwork.
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
A small chapel is the oldest permanent building in a megacity of 18 million.
Porto, Portugal
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
Otterburn, England
The memorial to this brutal battle between the English and the Scots has a surprisingly humble origin.
Berlin, Germany
An East German time capsule caters to nostalgic Germans and curious tourists.
Shinjuku City, Japan
A taste of the 15th century in the bustling heart of the modern Shinjuku City.
Flowers Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador
The site of the fossilized remains of some of Earth’s earliest primitive, microbial life forms.
Keszthely, Hungary
For many people the Hungarian Parliament building is a must-see stop on any visit to the capital but there is an equally stunning replica hidden in a basement.
Kobe, Japan
The first and oldest mosque in Japan.
Pahrump, Nevada
Collapsed charcoal kilns in the Spring Mountains of southern Nevada.
Savannah, Georgia
The childhood home of the award-winning novelist and short story writer.
Sale, England
The materials from one of the United Kingdom’s most famous animation studios are now preserved in a suburban library.