A series of well-preserved ruins show the culture of the ancient Benehoaritas people.

One of the tallest statues in the world, and the tallest statue of a goddess in Japan.

An ancient impact crater on the outskirts of Pretoria.

This former royal palace with gorgeous gardens became the first museum in Morocco.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

One of the world’s largest collections of paper memorabilia chronicles 4,000 years of papermaking.

A memorial to Wellington's well-loved, well-traveled wharf dog.

An old drug store full of mortars and pestles, pill-making machines, and medicines reputed to cure most any illness.

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

An artificial hill and apparent calendric structure built in the Early Middle Ages immortalizes a legendary Polish princess.

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

This centuries-old canal known as the Cuckoo Dyke has a staircase of locks suitable for a giant.

Destructive children, start your engines.

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

Where the "World Pinball Champion” is crowned.

A vast Communist-era exhibition space in the Bulgarian capital.

A plaque installed underwater marks the fall of a royal family from an imagined parallel universe—part of a globe-spanning art project.

An underwater road considered a possible Atlantis location.

A treasure trove of astronomical, mathematical, and scientific instruments at Cambridge University.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.