Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

A permanent outdoor art installation made up of more than 100 mushroom-shaped lights.

Once a safe haven for Black patrons and performers—including Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington—during the Jim Crow era, portions of this nightclub and motel have been restored to welcome a new kind of visitor.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

One of the earliest—and most commonly forgotten—acts of rebellion against English rule.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

A total of 14 men held the title of "president" before George Washington—their historical legacies are enshrined in the lobby of a hotel.

One of Australia's largest collections of preserved animals is on display in a historic theater.

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

From horses to stainless-steel trucks, this iconic Providence burger wagon is one of the oldest mobile diners in the country.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

A replica of fossils believed to be the first scientifically-described dinosaur bones found in North America.

The cutest way to stay safe in traffic.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.