Oberwesel, Germany
Burg Pfalzgrafenstein
Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.
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Oberwesel, Germany
Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.
Dachau, Germany
The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.
Munich, Germany
The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.
Munich, Germany
Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.
Munich, Germany
Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Athens, Greece
Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.
Athens, Greece
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
Luray, Virginia
An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.
Silver Spring, Maryland
Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.
McLean, Virginia
A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.
McLean, Virginia
The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.
St. Augustine, Florida
An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.
San Francisco, California
The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
Sausalito, California
Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.
Seattle, Washington
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
Seattle, Washington
Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.
Seattle, Washington
A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.
Seattle, Washington
A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.
Koloa, Hawaii
This blowhole is supposedly caused by a trapped monster.
Captain Cook, Hawaii
These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.