There is no other town or city in the world with the name Swayzee

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

A popular oddity on display in a stately building, offering a symbolic commentary.

A little-known mural reveals the hydrological reason for Atlanta's founding in this location.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

Indiana's oldest sternwheel paddleboat has been plying the placid waters of Webster Lake for 90 years.

A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

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

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

Overlooked by many, the two famous Scottish warriors guard the main gate of Edinburgh Castle.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant