A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

This site contains overlapping ancient graveyards that existed about 1,000 years apart.

A strange rock in Chicago marks the spot where a tree once stood in honor of the 18th President.

A 19th-century horse lover's bequest led to the construction of this unique fountain in Chicago.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

North Africa's first museum of its kind preserves the culture of Moroccan women and their artistic achievements. 

This vast masterpiece of Moroccan architecture spreads across 20 acres.

The location of a citizen uprising that led to a gruesome act of mob justice.

A remnant of the Roman army's presence on the coast of Scotland.

This tablet indicates where the tragic monarch returned to begin her tumultuous downfall.

This small sculpture honors a shuttered bookshop that was the site of a fiery act of protest.

An artistic interpretation of the history of a Scottish park, combining poetry with anthropomorphic animals.

This sculpture commemorates Edinburgh's sister city and their respective celebrity dogs.

This tiny weathered plot is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Scotland.

This former train tunnel is filled with lines from a poem crafted by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Many of Edinburgh's more unsavory characters spent their final days behind this door while awaiting their executions.

Possibly the world's smallest museum is home to one exhibit that sheds light on the capital city's dark criminal history.