Captured in 1968, the Cold War spy ship is the only U.S. Navy vessel being held by a foreign government.

Abandoned since the 1950s, the streetcar lane beneath the heavily trafficked bridge lays empty and unused.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

This tiny Hawaiian island is slowly coming back to life after being bombed during naval training exercises.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

An elegant sandstone stairway built by the WPA still connects two neighborhoods in Akron.

This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.

This ancient burial site is believed to be one of the first earthquake-protected structures in the world.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

This tiny river island switches sovereignty every six months as part of a rare, centuries-old agreement.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.