London, England
Tower of London's Ceremony of the Keys
The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.
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London, England
The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.
Oberhausen, Germany
An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.
Burghead, Scotland
Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
One of the oldest of its kind.
Fort Washington, Maryland
This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.
Portland, Oregon
The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.
Boston, Massachusetts
One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.
Iceland
A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.
Salem, West Virginia
This abandoned train tunnel has been the subject of countless ghost stories for years.
Baltimore, Maryland
Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.
Salt Lake City, Utah
This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.
Pomona, California
This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.
Sells, Arizona
The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.
Phoenix, Arizona
Once a year, at exactly 11:11 a.m., this monument comes to life.
Oakland, California
A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.
Glasgow, Scotland
This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.
Tacoma, Washington
This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.
Copenhagen, Denmark
The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.
Panguitch, Utah
The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.
Colma, California
The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.
Orion, Alberta
Huge spherical rocks in the middle of the prairie.
Twentynine Palms, California
The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.
Forest Grove, Montana
A scenic ravine with an astounding collection of rock art created by the Indigenous people of the Great Plains.