A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

This tiny Minnesota city tried to secede from the Union as a last-ditch effort to fix its crumbling water system.

The only land territory disputed between the U.S. and Canada.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

The final resting place of Captain William Becknell, the Old West frontiersman who forged the Santa Fe Trail.

A magnificent, glittering building tucked into a tiny Bulgarian mountain town.

A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

This rare wildlife haven in Singapore feels like you're in the tropical rainforest.

This sacred space and gathering spot for the Wyandot Nation has been the surrounded by controversy and confusion.

A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.

A wooden dock art installation on Chiloé Island taps into the island's indigenous mythology.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.

The remains of a monument in the remote Kazakhstani desert dedicated to the only men to die in outer space, the crew of the Soyuz 11 rocket.

Abraham Lincoln's likeness rests at the top of this giant totem pole.

The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

A charming museum of natural history featuring dioramas and exhibits made entirely by college students.

This Latvian shot factory is still used twice a year to manufacture bullets the old-fashioned way.

Mining caused an asbestos emergency in this small town.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.