A stone in Wolin, Poland, marks the possible location of a legendary Viking fortress.

The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

The secret skeleton of a murdered nun was discovered in this church basement, but the scandal doesn't end there.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.