Berlin, Germany
Knut the Polar Bear
Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.
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Berlin, Germany
Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.
Berlin, Germany
Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.
Berlin, Germany
These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.
Berlin, Germany
The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".
Berlin, Germany
On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.
Berlin, Germany
Art and a pun, all in one.
Berlin, Germany
A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.
Berlin, Germany
Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.
Black Hawk, Colorado
The burial grounds of a secret society includes fences topped with fake Tesla balls.
Seattle, Washington
The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.
New York, New York
Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.
New York, New York
This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.
Washington, D.C.
Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."
Washington, D.C.
This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.
Chicago, Illinois
At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.
Chicago, Illinois
This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.
Rapid City, South Dakota
This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.
Rapid City, South Dakota
Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.
Rapid City, South Dakota
South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.