This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

The world's tallest aluminum statue is also the world's tallest image of a winged Virgin Mary.

An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.

A turquoise lake within a volcanic crater.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

Legend says if this neo-Gothic basilica is ever officially completed, the world will come to an end.

Ecuador’s historic seat of government has been quietly looted in recent decades, and no one knows how or by whom.

Quito's historic, main square dates back to the 16th century.

A short volcanic hill in Quito doubles as a stellar observation point of an iconic statue.

It took 160 years to complete the most ornate church in Ecuador.

This 12-inch-tall wooden sculpture of a winged Virgin Mary has inspired much devotion and countless replicas.

This huge green space packed with activities will make you forget you're in the middle of the Ecuadorian capital.

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

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.