1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.

This historic hotel preserves many treasures from its heyday hosting passengers on the Orient Express.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

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

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

Yo, Adrian!

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.