Sarasota, Florida
Medieval Art Exhibit at the Ringling Museum
The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.
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Sarasota, Florida
The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.
Sarasota, Florida
The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.
Sarasota, Florida
The hall of fame for circus performers.
Helsinki, Finland
A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.
Helsinki, Finland
This ten-ton fruit sculpture celebrates the Finland homeland.
Helsinki, Finland
An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.
Helsinki, Finland
These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.
Helsinki, Finland
The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.
Helsinki, Finland
This church also serves as a lighthouse complete with a beacon.
Helsinki, Finland
This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.
Turku, Finland
A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.
St. Augustine, Florida
The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.
St. Augustine, Florida
St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.
Weeki Wachee, Florida
Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.
Peoria, Illinois
A collection of 11 million buttons illustrates the human toll of the Holocaust.
Spring Green, Wisconsin
A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.
Jackson, Mississippi
Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.
Memphis, Tennessee
This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.
Memphis, Tennessee
Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.
Brownsville, Tennessee
An oversized metal construction of Billy Tripp's moods going through life.
Livingston, Illinois
Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.
St. Louis, Missouri
Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.