One of America's largest retail chains got its start in one of its most remote rural destinations.

A Google software engineer's Easter egg led to what may be the world's most unusual saved screenshot.

The author of Frankenstein is buried here, along with her parents and the heart of her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

This massive redwood tree has stood in Northern California for nearly 2,000 years.

Loyal fans of one television's most famous painters still come to pay their respects.

The only fully-realized skyscraper built by the famed American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

This tidal island, a sacred site in early English Christianity, was the target of a notable Viking invasion.

In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin briefly ran their fledgling company from this Silicon Valley garage.

A blend of sporting history mixed with childhood nostalgia await visitors to this museum.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.

Watch butterflies take flight before you fly.

Known as one of America's most beautiful public restrooms.

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.

This North African stone complex is considered to be the oldest astronomical observatory on Earth.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

The final resting place of one of the brightest physicists of the 20th century.

The final resting place of the author who gave us the Little Mermaid, the Ugly Duckling, and many more beloved fairy tales.

The largest-known fragment of an asteroid that exploded over the southern Ural region in 2013.

A replica of the Roman emperor in glorious full color.

In this small strip mall resides the largest collection of original art from the famed TV artist.

The final resting place of an iconic drag performer is decorated with pearls and hot-pink lipstick.

A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.