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What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

A source of civic pride, though the reason for its construction is unknown.

In Chicago, an empty relic of a time when neighborhood zoos were more common.

America’s smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

Young Emmett Till's tragic story, which sparked America's civil rights movement, is retold near the site where it occurred.

The scant remains of an expansive indigenous civilization can be seen at this Arkansas state park.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

This tower is one of the best-preserved (and least-visited) remnants of medieval Paris.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

The location of this small park was once the site of an infamous public morgue.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

The narrowest house in Buenos Aires is less than 10 feet wide.

105-foot wide giant metallic flower blooms anew every day in the heart of Buenos Aires.

A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.

The actual “Hotel Rwanda” that became a hiding place and refuge from the horrors of genocide in 1994.

A split boulder left by the Ice Age and, according to legend, a hazard to your senses.

A tragic legacy of the attempt to beautify Skopje and line the pockets of corrupt politicians

Plaque commemorating the location of a underground nuclear bomb test in the 1970s.

Explore an eerie, abandoned medieval citadel.

A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.