The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

This trio of reliefs—an ear, a mouth, and a pair of eyes—carved into the walls of flooded quarries is a monument to spying.

In a narrow river valley just north of Beirut, Lebanon, is a chronicle of human history unlike anything else in the world.

A park to honor all U.S. Armed Forces veterans, and Emporia's status as the founding city of Veterans Day.

A remote Arctic museum focusing on the science of icebergs and the archaeology of an ancient Inuit settlement which lies just outside its doors.

High in the trees or suspended between cables, these surreal structures are the works of a unique Japanese architect.

Dive into an undersea optical illusion off the coast of Mauritius.

Unrefined, uneven, and unstable—this is the real McCoy of Pakistani suspension bridges.

At this concrete bunker on the Trondheim fjord, secrets lie above and below the water's surface.

A young artist's storefront brings eldritch horrors to small-town America.

This sculpture is dedicated to a local therapy dog who later became the official mascot of the 126th Boston Marathon.

An artificial cave littered with semi-precious stones waiting to be picked up.

This windmill has been grinding pigments for traditional paints for more than 200 years.

A massive line that stretches across the floor of Bologna’s largest church was created by a 17th-century scientist to measure the movements of the Sun.

A tiny museum dedicated to the charkha, a traditional spinning wheel that became a symbol of national resistance during Gandhi's freedom movements.

A former railroad trestle over Interstate 90 has been refurbished for non-motorized traffic on the Palouse to Cascades trail.