Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
Martha's Vineyard Gingerbread Houses
This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.
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Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.
Cartagena, Colombia
The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.
Bahamas
The site of the earliest colonial settlement in the Bahamas started as a place of religious refuge.
Bogotá, Colombia
Towering high above the neighborhood of La Candelaria, the church is easily recognizable by its distinctive red-and-white striped facade.
Boston, Massachusetts
Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.
Bogotá, Colombia
Every Sunday, Bogotá turns 75 miles of its city streets into a bicycle superhighway.
Cartagena, Colombia
Perched atop the highest hill in Cartagena, this 17th-century convent offers spectacular views of the city.
Jenner, California
The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.
Inverness, California
The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.
Bogotá, Colombia
Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.
Moss Landing, California
More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.
Huntsville, Alabama
It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.
Newbury, Massachusetts
This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.
Huntsville, Alabama
A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.
Québec City, Québec
This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.
Newton, Massachusetts
This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.
Salem, New Hampshire
America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.
Cartagena, Colombia
An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.
Salinas, California
Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.
San Simeon, California
The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.
Bahamas
This isthmus in the Bahamas narrowly separates the roiling Atlantic from the cool Bight of Eleuthera.
Boston, Massachusetts
Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.