A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

Portugal's National Pantheon has a history of curses, collapses and financial problems.

Sip cherry liqueur at a bar dating back to 1840.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

Tucked away inside this concrete building is a church and its grand display of brutalist architecture.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.