In 1889, a small group of women began meeting to discuss literature, art, and other topics. Their every-other-week salon grew into a lending library that still exists today.

Both the building and blades of this reconstructed 19th-century windmill can turn in a breeze.

Sample specialties from Xinjiang at this Shinjuku neighborhood gem.

Glasgow's oldest pub has a proud literary tradition and possibly a ghost or two.

This mile marker stands at the unofficial end of a highway built to defend the United States from a Japanese invasion during World War II.

A tribute to those who fled the Great Famine and relocated to Australia.

Once a meeting point for great thinkers, and the midpoint of the country.

The meeting of the northwestern corner of Delaware, the northeastern corner of Maryland, and the southern edge of Pennsylvania.

The memorial stands at the intersection of the rivers Morava and Danube.

Hidden in the woods behind this English estate lies a Victorian pet cemetery.

Dedicated to a veritable Houdini among P.O.W.s who escaped imprisonment on five separate occasions.

This massive redwood tree has stood in Northern California for nearly 2,000 years.

These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.

A brass and marble scale model of the solar system embedded in the concrete.

Under the shadow of its towering parent tree, a rare specimen of sequoia produces ghostly white leaves.

A funerary monument for two brothers who served in the Roman cavalry.

This small but unique site depicts part of an arguably underrepresented part of Australia's early connections to the seafaring communities to its north.

A family accused of witchcraft once called this medieval tower home.

This "Atomic Egg" appears on the city of Garching's coat of arms.

At Oklahoma Panhandle State University, a plaque marks a place once known as No Man's Land in the linear world and the fictional Kcymaerxthaere as well.

Is this 47.7-mile stretch of highway the longest straight road in the United States?

This half-forgotten fortress was constructed by the Ottoman conqueror of Constantinople.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

This breathtaking monastery was established by Saint Benedict himself 1,500 years ago.