A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United States.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

This historic, one-acre island is the only legal place to camp in the city of Richmond.

This ancient settlement contains some of the largest earthen mounds in North America.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A plaque pays tribute to the artist's longtime London home.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Inside this home, the Icelandic national anthem was born.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

Sweden's oldest street has not changed for nearly a millennium.