Where a young athlete began his run across Canada after losing his right leg to cancer.

The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

The first official clock in North America, it kept time for the Spanish government of Santo Domingo.

Built in 1512, the oldest cathedral in the Americas.

The oldest colonial fortress in the Americas was once the home and later prison of Christopher Columbus.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

This defunct Champlain Oil service station harkens back to the early days of automobiles.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

No one knows the meaning behind this giant sculpture of a nude woman with a fork riding a rooster in Havana.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.