A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

These precariously placed ruins harken back to a 13th-century castle.

This hidden 13th-century tavern room has a few Shakespearean connections.

Isaac Newton's former home, where the famous apple tree still stands.

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

The English graveyard of Mineral del Monte, a magical little piece of Cornwall in Mexico.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

This secluded walking trail is a hidden gem of a Pittsburgh park.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

Impressive artifacts from Juneau's gold mining days fill this mining site-turned-museum.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

America's first public mental health facility.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.