The longest hiking route on the island of Java leads to this inactive volcano.

The first European-style university in western Sub-Saharan Africa.

It's said that at this location, a Scottish poet met the Queen of the Fairies.

The world's first motel is now an administrative building for an apple farm.

This grove was planted more than a century ago by the War Mothers of World War I.

An abandoned skate park located in the middle of the wilderness.

Nine caves filled with recently-discovered archaeological finds under the houses and the streets of the most ancient district of an old town.

A reconstruction of a classic mansion on the island of Delos was designed for a historian and archaeologist.

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

A British Commonwealth cemetery in the heart of Milan, with 421 allied soldiers died during World War II.

Train cars and railroad artifacts abound at this restaurant devoted to railway history.

This village in Bohemian Switzerland hosts more than 300 wood carvings inspired by fairytales, folklore, and other oddities, as well as a series of Communist-era tanks

An abandoned, rusty old relic of railroad history stands at attention over the Cuyahoga River.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

This tree, with its large oval-shaped scar, is a rare piece of Aboriginal cultural history.

A 2,000-ton rock resting in a state of a delicate balance.

This museum is dedicated to the history and design of purses.

The forgotten and tragic story of the thousands of female convicts forcibly transported to Tasmania is told inside the ruins of this notorious 19th-century workhouse.

This small pedestal marks the spot of the first lot of land sold in Alexandria, Virginia in 1749.

These seaside shelters once enjoyed by royalty remain a part of local history.

This statue honors a pillar of the early New Haven Black community.

The heartbeat of modern Uzbekistan’s thriving market culture.

A memorial to those who died at the hands of the Kuomintang while fighting for communism in China.

This poured-concrete water reservoir is a gem of modernist architecture well-hidden in a city forest.