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Every Friday night, Appalachian string-bands turn this country store and soda fountain into a raucous jamboree.

These tiny effigies on display in Scotland's National Museum are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh's notorious Anatomy Murders.

An otherworldly alpine pasture in Slovenia with historical ties to WWII and architecture that recalls Middle Earth.

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 radical suffragist left striking words on her tombstone.

A public library display of fossils from the ice age.

The smallest walk-in museum in the United States, this miniature museum preserves and displays a range of historic manuscripts.

A library in Germany displays a likeness that some believe is William Shakespeare.

Remnant of a largely forgotten struggle over resource scarcity.

The devil-defying mark left by a saint as a boy is visible inside Lisbon's cathedral.

Crash site of a US National Guard C-47B plane that attempted to land at Gustavus airport in 1957 in bad weather.

At this bright and vibrant museum in Mexico City, you can make your own custom scent.