Hingham, Massachusetts
World's End
Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.
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Hingham, Massachusetts
Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.
Brooklyn, New York
The painter who popularized "bulls" and "bears" as symbols for the stock market didn't get a proper headstone for over a century.
Tallinn, Estonia
A spectacular Petrine Baroque summer palace commissioned for Catherine I by Peter the Great.
Musselburgh, Scotland
Sculptures depicting Scottish and English soldiers in battle honor a 16th-century conflict.
Chivhu, Zimbabwe
Several ancient rock paintings can be found on the hills surrounding the Daramombe High School.
Amersfoort, Netherlands
At the base of this tower, a plaque marks the original center point of the Netherlands.
Nashville, Tennessee
In 1912, a broken section of the reservoir wall released millions of gallons of water and destroyed many homes downhill.
Outer Hebrides, Scotland
A memorial dedicated to a boating accident that was bringing troops back home from World War I.
Maseru, Lesotho
Just outside Lesotho's capital city, a rock formation takes the shape of a powerful predator.
Athens, Greece
An important example of architectural history slowly decays in the city center.
Brooklyn, New York
In Little Caribbean, an ice-cream shop serves up regional flavors, including soursop, Irish moss, and "greatnut."
New Florence, Missouri
Come for the heirloom-corn whiskey, stay for the wood hats.
Adsdorf, Austria
Austria’s oldest brewery makes beer with flaming-hot granite.
Lyminster, England
This carved stone slab marked the grave of a local dragon slayer, who makes a killer pie.
Haverstraw, New York
This house was the subject of an Edward Hopper painting, which in turn helped inspire the design of the Bates house in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho.'
Trapani, Italy
A never-inhabited village that was built as part of Mussolini's agricultural reforms.
Bristol, England
A monument dedicated to the unrecognized Black "mother" of modern medicine.
Germantown, Maryland
The ruins of an old mill lie in a small ravine along a hiking trail near Little Seneca Creek.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.
London, England
This artificial lake surrounded by Brutalist architecture served as a stand-in for futuristic Britain in Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange.'
Lima, Peru
Haunted by its violent past, this colonial bastion was the largest Spanish military installation in the Americas.
Fredericksburg, Virginia
A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.
Kearney, Nebraska
A museum chronicling pioneer life constructed over Interstate 80.
Anaheim, California
A monument to the legacy of the man who created Spongebob Squarepants at the school where his passion for art and marine biology began.