An important Mayan religious and trading center dating back to 200 BC.

This portion of a lovely Belize beach is infested with (harmless) sharks and rays.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

Enormous ants wielding giant pine needles guard a Stockholm real estate company's office.

A king's bloodstained shirt is among the gruesome collection of artifacts displayed below Stockholm's Royal Palace.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

Legend says this demonic carving inside a medieval cathedral was one of Satan's minions.

The world's first military tank was designed in this English city amid the stalemate of WWI trench warfare.

The oldest of the three remaining bridges in England with buildings on top of them.

Between Missoula and Spokane, a family-owned travel center has an unusual museum in the back.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

A little-visited ghost town state park offers a glimpse into Montana’s "Silver Queen."

This tiny movie theater was the last one in the U.S. constructed in the Nuevo Deco architectural style.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.