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

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

This unassuming farm complex was once the epicenter of an underground liberation group.

This deceptively beautiful island was once home to a German concentration camp and known as "Death Island."

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

This gem from the industrial age helps visitors and residents alike traverse hilly Stockholm.

This charming old building's loose connection with the Scottish Reformer is what saved it from demolition after it split apart.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

This small museum in a 17th-century building honors three iconic Scottish writers.

This taxidermy horse was a Civil War hero.

Over 60 species of birds inhabit this colorful aviary park in South Africa.

A large-scale steel sculpture entitled 'The Shadow Boxer' pays tribute to Nelson Mandela.

Deliberately hidden for centuries, the magnificent Saadian Tombs were eventually uncovered in 1917.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

Despite many attempts to finish this overpass, it has been abandoned since the 1970s.

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

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.