Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

Nelson Mandela lived here with his family from 1946 until his arrest in 1962.

A safari-themed castle in the South African bush with the largest maze in the southern hemisphere.

The last Oostende trawler to fish off Iceland is now a museum.

A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

The 28,000-year-old specimen is remarkably intact.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.