On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

Colorful umbrella-covered trees in Singapore's Little India look straight out of Dr. Seuss.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

A swamp and garden tour featuring local wildlife and exotic botanical specimens from around the world.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

Nibble as you learn about Slovenia's longstanding tradition of making beautiful honey cookies.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

An eccentric dictator's take on a Turkmen version of Disneyland.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

An ancient fortification lives on in this Chinese city.

During World War II, blimps were a key part of the United States' defense against German U-boats—this building could house a dozen of the armed airships.

The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.