A museum dedicated to Wales’ favorite—and strangest-looking—watercraft.

In this scale model, our neighboring planets are represented by metal spheres spread across an English village. The nearest stars are represented by spheres in California and Australia.

Beautiful scenery, history, science, and physics come together in this remnant of shipping lore.

One of the largest refracting telescopes in the world, and the first built specifically for studying astrophysics.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.

Working compound meant to allow visitors to reclaim the values and traditions of the past.

This beautiful and unmissable little museum is full of fascinating artifacts from Mesoamerica's great civilizations.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

A historic fort commemorating the United States' naval history.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

A geothermal pool in North Iceland that is said to be the bathing spot of the legendary Grettir the Strong.

This severely painted building has a twisted connection to the witch hunts of the 1640s.

A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.

In 1909, the steepest and most difficult piece of track on the Canadian Pacific Railway was replaced with a series of spiralling tunnels cut into the mountains.

The oldest alley in San Francisco is paved with a reminder of the city's original shoreline.

Built as part of a "sludge fleet" that transported sewage, this historic steamship now mostly moves people.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

A winery built on the site of a Gallo-Roman estate uses historical tools to recreate ancient vintages.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

On the edge of this small Washington Park, a piece of the Earth's mantle has come to the surface.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.