This chestnut box will not be opened until the country music legend's 100th birthday in 2046.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

A series of carved figures that scandalized British society.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

This park celebrates a sister city relationship that survived the Cold War.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?