This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

A super-sized promotional trick that is now a D.C. landmark.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

This gorgeous, colorful 18th-century church is part of one of Bolivia's few surviving Jesuit missions.

Where a rare geological phenomenon created a section of rock that resembles a checkerboard.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

Once a strategically imperative naval base, portions of this Bermuda dock complex now serve cruise ships.

The world's smallest drawbridge.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.