Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

This elegant Colombian fortress was one of the torture headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition.

This memorial to the Mercury Seven astronaut stands at the site of his former elementary school.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Dozens of elegant ceramic tiles decorate these ancient walls, each displaying the Lord's Prayer in a different language.

This dome-shaped mountain boasts amazing views and has a rich religious history.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

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.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.