Old ships and machinery fill a historic harbor in the city that's home to Europe's largest port.

Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The ground on which Shakespeare’s initial playhouse once stood.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

An elliptical glass tower that is known as the world’s first two-sided building.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

This park is home to a massive bird sanctuary. And maybe buried treasure!

Wander through more than 20,000 square feet filled with an amazing collection of orchids.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

In a pedestrian tunnel on North Carolina State’s campus resides an expressive and artistic free-for-all.

This former hunting grounds that once attracted U.S. presidents and other luminaries. Now it’s a privately owned research reserve dedicated to environmental sciences.

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.