An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

The world's largest rotating world.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Giant topiary dog once played a role in a terrorist bomb plot.

Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".