Dominica
Jacko Steps
This historic hiding place, often used by people escaping slavery, is a testament to a heroic struggle for freedom.
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Dominica
This historic hiding place, often used by people escaping slavery, is a testament to a heroic struggle for freedom.
Rome, Italy
Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.
Budapest, Hungary
A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.
Sequoia National Park, California
Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).
Faro, Portugal
This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.
Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
Brooklyn, New York
Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.
Lynchburg, Tennessee
All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.
Choco, Colombia
Only gap in the 30,000-mile span of roads called the Pan-American Highway.
Tokyo, Japan
Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.
Amesbury, England
Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world
Blackfoot, Idaho
This museum glorifies the humble potato.
Boise, Idaho
When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.
Santos, Brazil
This majestic building, where Brazil's coffee brokers once bought and sold beans, now houses a coffee museum.
Brussels, Belgium
Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.
Washington, D.C.
A street in front of NASA's D.C. headquarters has been named in honor of the Black women who were essential to early spaceflight.
Westminster, Massachusetts
One man built this massive wall to keep his neighbor from complaining about working on Sundays.
Amarillo, Texas
A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.
Hayward, Wisconsin
Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.
Hayward, Wisconsin
143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.
Union, Maine
They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.
London, England
Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.
Cañon City, Colorado
The site of the "Bone Wars" between two rival paleontologists during the dinosaur rush of the 19th century.
Dallas, Texas
This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.