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A fortress on this island housed the mysterious prisoner known as the "Man in the Iron Mask" for more than a decade.

Invented in the mid-19th century, this machine could send copied images via telegraph lines.

The house is an iconic pilgrimage site for fans of the Illinois-based emo band.

A million years ago, our ancient ancestors were cooking with fire in this cave.

Catch a live blues set in a former 1930s grocery store on the Mississippi River.

The first national memorial to honor all women suffragists stands on land where suffragists were once imprisoned.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

These palatial ruins said to be inspired by Cambodia's Angkor Wat have been turned a significant religious temple.

In the garden of a Georgia museum, without any explanation, is a monumental head of the Communist icon.

Hidden tunnels have sheltered the people of a Czech town for centuries.

Amid the ruins of a church on the British island of Portland, a surprising symbol among the headstones.

This museum shaped like a manuscript tells how the seven kingdoms combined to form a single desert nation.

A massive marble pedestal is all that remains of a column that towered over Constantinople for 1300 years.

Benjamin Lay, a fiery abolitionist, is buried outside the Quaker meeting house that disowned him for his beliefs.

Under a breathtaking Buddhist temple in Vietnam is a basement exhibit that takes visitors to hell and back.