Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

A wonderful safe haven founded in the 1960s to rescue endangered monkeys from the pet trade.

This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

At 1,732 feet above sea level, this spectacularly isolated yet surprisingly bustling bar is the highest pub in Britain.

This iconic high-rise residential block was one of the last to be built in the Brutalist style.

Legend says squeezing into this slender stone seat will make your wish come true.

The site of a bloody showdown between invading Iraqi forces and a cell of the popular resistance in Kuwait.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

In the mid-20th century, a tamale-slinging juke joint attracted a diverse clientele in the Mississippi Delta.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This Javanese-Hindu temple from the 15th century is unmissable for anyone with even a passing interest in erotic art.

An Indonesian mosque styled after St. Basil's Cathedral.

Subterranean place of worship in Indonesia.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

A cone-shaped top and cylindrical body set this 900-year-old structure apart from other Italian bell towers.

This memorial depicts the unlikely team that won England the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy.

The phone booths in this English town have distinctly milky hues.

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

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Known as the "Valley of the Moon," this Jordanian wadi is one of the most amazing desertscapes on Earth.