Through the decades, Black music stars have performed at this historic hub for music and the arts.

England's largest white horse isn't even white.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The site of a famous samurai duel.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

A garden full of metal sculptures that celebrate the double bass.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

The legacies of two historic Black American institutions live on in this unassuming brick building.

A tiny, unmarked beer and whiskey bar above an Ethiopian restaurant in West Philly fails to conceal live bluegrass.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.