The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

Ireland's most remarkable collection of these curious cone-shaped houses is worth the buzz.

An exceptional assortment of fossils recovered from private collections.

The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

The notorious couple camped at this site after a bloody shootout with police.

A small burial plot formerly stranded in the middle of a road.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

The World's Largest Bull.

Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.