St. Joseph, Missouri
Jesse James Home Museum
The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.
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St. Joseph, Missouri
The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.
Shoreham, New York
An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.
Obergoms VS, Switzerland
A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.
San Juan County, Utah
An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France
The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.
Pacifica, California
The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.
Seydisfjordur, Iceland
An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.
Santa Monica, California
Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.
Iceland
This tumultuous Icelandic lava field looks so alien European researchers want to use it as a stand-in for Mars.
Pasadena, California
Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.
Lerwick, Scotland
During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.
Banff, Alberta
Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.
Machrie, Scotland
More stones than Stonehenge, all scattered within a windswept landscape sure to enchant 'Outlander' fans.
Vatican City
Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.
Washington, D.C.
Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.
Boston, Massachusetts
This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.
Sierra Madre, California
Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.
Springfield, Illinois
When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.
Holyoke, Massachusetts
A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.
Cruden Bay, Scotland
The remains of a grand castle that may have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.
London, England
A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."
Geneva, Illinois
A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.
Rome, Italy
Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.
Lynchburg, Virginia
A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.