This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.

A centuries-old fortress city lies in ruin.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.