The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

Live long and prosper in Vulcan, Alberta.

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

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

Unique tower has outlasted a takeover of the company.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

Soldiers honored the beloved Pat with a special grave.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

Ancient Egyptian relief, claimed to depict an electrical light.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.