The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

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

This cemetery is one of the last remaining traces of a drowned old Western town.

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

This museum is dedicated to telling the story of dinosaurs from a creationist perspective. 

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

The mysterious canine hides atop a drain pipe on the back of the building, some say as a sneaky shoutout to Yale.

Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.