This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

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

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

This mysterious structure by the Washington Monument is a flood barrier designed to protect the White House against rising waters.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.