A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

An unusual assortment of steerable wooden sleds is on display in a library in New Jersey where they were first invented.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

The early data processor factory founded in Washington for the 1890 U.S. Census went on to become IBM.

This suburban house is made of dirt, and almost sparked a revolution in home construction.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

The widest waterfall in Europe is a natural wonder and one of the only places where fish are caught in the air.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.

This subterranean funicular is one of the world's smallest subways.

Traditional Bedouin crafting has become an official tourist site and successful industry for its female craftspeople.

Hidden beneath a washing machine in a fake kibbutz, this secret bullet factory has been preserved as a museum.

This unique exhibit "Dialogue in the Dark" reverses roles as the visionless become guides and the sighted become ‘blind.’

9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.