In the waters outside Helsinki, a tiny island once used as a military outpost now welcomes visitors.

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

This historic observatory was established to keep shipwrecks from littering the Cape of Good Hope.

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

A mysterious inscription may hold a clue about the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

This cannon dating to 1755 has stood guard at this suburban intersection since 1915.

Built to defend Washington D.C. during the Civil War, this fort became a post-war nucleus for a thriving Black community.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

This brick-lined pedestrian walkway was once a railway tunnel used during the Civil War.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.