This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

Museum dedicated to the largest battleship ever built.

An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

Two buildings named after their windows that make it look like a sea of television sets plastered to a wall.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

This picturesque monastery at the base of a cliff is a peaceful oasis open to all visitors.

A sculpture of a beloved local figure, who tipped his top hat to everyone he passed on the streets of Bratislava.

An ode to a soldier who came to town, fell in love, then began making his own sparkling wine.

Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.

Not one, but two of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural masterpieces nestled on the same street.

Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.

A shoreline exhibit describing the disastrous first attempt by the French to colonize North America.

A quarter mile off the coastal tip of Maine you'll find the "Beloved Island" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

The 32nd president's sprawling cottage sits on an island enclave jointly managed by the U.S. and Canada.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

The world's largest rotating world.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.