Coral Gables, Florida
Tenerife Reflecting Point
A plaque honors Miami's sister city in the Canary Islands, inviting one to reflect on their place in the world.
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Coral Gables, Florida
A plaque honors Miami's sister city in the Canary Islands, inviting one to reflect on their place in the world.
Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania
A monument to an Irish secret society thought to be responsible for a string of violent attacks in Pennsylvania coal mines.
Aldershot, England
In the mid-1800s, the British military used this hilltop fort to train soldiers.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
In use from 1742 to 1910, only flat headstones were allowed in this cemetery.
Montgenèvre, France
The ruins of a military fortification sit atop this mountain.
New Mexico
Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.
Turkmenistan
A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.
Sudbury, England
At this fountain, Pongo and Missis of "The Hundred and One Dalmatians," stopped to drink.
London, England
Two tombstones associated with the much-beloved children's story.
Nye County, Nevada
Red rock "fangs" jut out of the desert near the Extraterrestrial Highway.
Lanett, Alabama
Inside this small brick bungalow is a collection of toys intended for the afterlife.
Hinckley, Ohio
Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.
Nashville, Tennessee
Test your mettle against the hottest hot chicken in Nashville.
Alexandria, Virginia
In 1932, Americans honored their first president's 200th birthday by planting trees.
Spencerport, New York
It is one of the few places in Rochester that has both Union and Confederate soldiers buried and honored.
Suffolk, Virginia
An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.
Worthington, Pennsylvania
Hidden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania lies one of the best-kept ghost towns in America that you can legally visit.
Pottsville, Pennsylvania
Outside a small brewery, a Gothic fountain that once provided water to thirsty horses.
Miami, Florida
This Miami cemetery holds the remains of two Cuban presidents, a Nicaraguan president, and the senior Desi Arnaz. And it was once the resting place of the crown prince of Spain.
Yorktown, Virginia
Mass grave of 50 unidentified French Soldiers who died at the Siege of Yorktown, 1781, that gave victory to the American Revolution.
West Hills, New York
The poet Walt Whitman was a frequent visitor to this spot, the highest on Long Island.
Huntington Station, New York
The famed poet was born in 1819 in a farmhouse built by his father.
Ibiza, Spain
The largest and best preserved necropolis in the Western Mediterranean.
Christmas, Florida
Measuring approximately 200 feet long, Swampy is the world's largest alligator-shaped building.