Once a vital asset for Southeast Alaska’s timber industry and the backdrop for the gritty 1954 film noir classic Cry Vengeance, the Connell Lake dam now stands as a tragic yet scenic barrier blocking vital fish passage.

Cool Soviet-era public sculpture outside the Kyrgyz National Academy of Sciences on Chuy Ave.

This remarkable 125-year-old building has survived a bank heist, a rooftop dragon, and more than a century of changing businesses; today, it lives on as FairyCross Bottle Shop.

A collection of modern petroglyphs by artist Kevin Sudeith. Hate them or love them, but important to experience.

An out-of-service tunnel and nearby remembrances recall the location of a deadly train crash in the New York City subway.

Thousands of prehistoric artifacts from the region around Laayoune are preserved by one man in this small museum.

The museum is located in one of the two remaining military gymnasiums left in the United States.

This was Allied HQ during D-Day! Eisenhower was there and you can visit the ACTUAL MAP he looked at on that day.

This museum seems tiny but is absolutely packed full of regional history.

A children's mosaic in Limassol using deep-sea creature patterns to honor young lives lost across several genocides, including Cyprus’s own 1974 wounds.

A beautiful Georgian church alongside the Thames has a crypt in the basement, in which are buried the bodies of the infamous American traitor Benedict Arnold, his wife Peggy, and their daughter Sophia.

This La Mancha museum brings the region’s winemaking tradition to life

The Pulitzer Prize winning writer and actor from “The Exorcist,” Jason Miller, is immortalized with a statue that contains his ashes.

Home of the world-famous coyote-teeth dentures.

The shelves at this Chattanooga bar are stocked with used books, and buying one sends money back to the library.

The ruins of Illinois's first state penitentiary, and former Federal Military Prison, from 1833.

How a friendly mining-school rivalry, two adventurous students, and 400 tons of limestone created a Platteville landmark.

This former abandoned train station converted into a restaurant and small museum is a delight for both casual diners and rail enthusiasts alike.

The most emblematic piece by a Peruvian master of pop art ended up placed in a modest square in Alcorcón.

The oldest institution of higher education in Wisconsin and the first to admit women.

It's a massive, rusted fountain that survived an earthquake in 1988.

An operating 19th-century lighthouse just on the southern tip of Sweden.

This well-preserved Ottoman-era Cairene mansion hosts a facinating archive of Egyptian architecure, from the pharaohs and sultans to the modern day.

A somber place of memory and reflection, that tells the story of Riga's Jewish community before and during World War II.