The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

Thousands of unmarked, sunken graves in a pauper's cemetery.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

The largest living museum in the Northeast recreates life from the Early Republic period complete with costumed historians and reenactors.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Vermont is the final resting place of soldiers, politicians, and a famous author.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

One of the oldest family businesses in Reykjavík serves lamb-based hot dogs.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

This wildlife trust is dedicated to orphaned elephant rescue and conservation.

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.

Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.

This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.

This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.