Key West, Florida
Hemingway's Last Penny
An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.
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Key West, Florida
An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.
Key West, Florida
A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.
Key West, Florida
"We Seceded Where Others Failed."
Key West, Florida
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Key West, Florida
These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.
Hartford, Connecticut
The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.
New York, New York
Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.
Lima, Peru
The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.
Cusco, Peru
Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.
Aguas Calientes, Peru
The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.
Cusco, Peru
The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.
Newark, Ohio
An office built to look like a giant basket.
Avebury, England
The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.
Closter, New Jersey
A whimsical monument deep in this park commemorates the groups that helped build it.
Boonton Township, New Jersey
This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.
Hot Springs, South Dakota
This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.
Dublin, Ohio
The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.
Clare, Ireland
A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.
New York, New York
A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.
Urubamba, Peru
Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.
Bennington, Vermont
The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."