Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

A pretty park of over 1,600 olive trees that grew from just three saplings brought over from Spain.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you've been transported to an Italian villa.