Somerville, Massachusetts
Charles William Jr. House
This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.
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Somerville, Massachusetts
This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.
Chesterfield, New Hampshire
Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.
Lincoln, Nebraska
The largest collection of historical roller skates in the world.
Cartersville, Georgia
These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.
Bodio, Switzerland
The world's longest and deepest train tunnel.
Lichtenstein, Germany
A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.
Chicago, Illinois
This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.
Chicago, Illinois
What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.
Mexico City, Mexico
A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.
Jodhpur, India
Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.
Williamstown, Kentucky
A theme park featuring a replica of Noah's Ark built to the measurements specified in the Bible.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
Wilson, Kansas
A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.
London, England
London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.
Moscow, Russia
This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.
New York, New York
This 220-year-old house is a reminder of New York City's Dutch past.
Melilla, Spain
A five-square-mile slice of Spain on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.
Greenland
A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.
Rapid City, South Dakota
South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.
Tonga
A failed utopia, shut down by a more legitimate nation.
United States / Canada
The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.