This beautiful example of neoclassical architecture is one of Uruguay's most treasured cultural gems.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the coral reefs off Key Largo.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Aruba’s first chapel.

A sprawling beachfront burial ground for Aruba's departed pets.

This 15-foot red anchor sits on a rise overlooking the sea lanes of eastern Aruba.

The mouldering manses of wealthy colonials still pock the streets of a Curaçao neighborhood.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.

A gift from Scotland to the United States in memory of the 270 lives lost when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie due to a terrorist bombing.

A battleship’s mast sits atop a turret-like memorial, commemorating those who lost their lives in one of the precipitating events of the Spanish-American War.

An oft-overlooked, magically musical monolith that stands majestically between Arlington Cemetery and the Iwo Jima Memorial.

The Lincoln Memorial has inspired many, even though a word on the inscription appears to be spelled incorrectly.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.