This rural museum highlights Wyoming's era of trapping and fur trades, and hosts the annual Green River Rendezvous in July.

A quartet of tiled art pieces adorn the floors of this prestigious art museum.

This cast-iron canine is a beloved icon among the people of Johnstown and ice hockey fans everywhere.

Largely overlooked, this little fountain on Museum Island is a whimsical tribute to a Prussian king nicknamed the “Fatty Flounder.”

A quirky roadside sign was the subject of a years-long legal standoff over highway right-of-way clearances. 

The beginning of the historic Iditarod Trail connecting the Alaskan cities of Seward and Nome.

The arch marks the beginning of the road for northbound travelers.

This Old West hotel, the longest in continuous operation in the state of Arizona, is claimed to be haunted.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

An 83-foot tall granite obelisk honors the legacy of Dr. King in the heart of Norfolk's Black community.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

A haven for book enthusiasts across the street from Retiro Park.

This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.

Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.

This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

Despite the name, this ancient piece of crystal may not have been a lens at all.

The farmhouse owned by the Danish author who wrote "Out of Africa" is now a museum honoring her legacy.

A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.

This heritage museum highlights the importance of the dairy cow as a vital part of rural Maryland's past, present, and future.

A Route 66 filling station that was designed to resemble the Hagia Sophia, and is now the symbol of an arts district.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

This saltwater swimming pool, which is the last of its kind in the United States, is slowly crumbling within sight of multiple high-end beachside hotels.

A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."