The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Orcas on display and in the water.

These abandoned ruins in the middle of Jaffna have withstood centuries of tumultuous power struggles.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.