A beautiful opera house in the heart of Amazonia has recently restarted performances after a 90-year hiatus.

Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.

A celebration of Colombia’s premier contemporary artist.

This tiny shop has been serving traditional tamales for more than 200 years.

This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.

The world's first crowdfunded skyscraper has not gone quite to plan.

Every Sunday, Bogotá turns 75 miles of its city streets into a bicycle superhighway.

A bronze statue of a low three-legged seat commemorates a piece of furniture that started a riot.

Allegedly haunted by Walt Disney himself, this inconspicuous lamp is always kept lit in his honor.

Once used as a deterrent to drinking alcohol.

This Masonic lodge was the first major private building to be constructed in Washington, D.C. after the Civil War.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

Sit where JFK proposed to Jackie or where Nixon dined on meatloaf at this storied pub.

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

The story behind this beloved toy—named for Theodore Roosevelt and owned by his grandson—is more complicated than you might guess.

A former military hospital is now used to study and preserve artifacts of the Acropolis.

An atomic bomb-proof strongbox protects the U.S. Constitution from terrorists and thieves.

Recently celebrating its 25th anniversary, the garden opened in September 1997 to celebrate the men and women who have had the greatest impact on Key West.

Hungarian Jews were ghettoized during the Second World War, but little remains of the original wall that closed the Jewish people off from the rest of the city.

Recorded as the first person buried in Arlington Cemetery.

Though his role as the inventor of baseball may be up for debate, fans still festoon Doubleday's grave with baseballs.

A gift from Scotland to the United States in memory of the 270 lives lost when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie due to a terrorist bombing.