One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

How would you like to dine in the same room where some of the Titanic's victims were embalmed?

Superfans of The Shawshank Redemption can take a driving tour of most of the films real locations.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

One of the most accessible undersea plane wrecks in the world.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

This tiny 1930s Art Deco airport is a beautiful remnant of a bygone era.

A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.

This shop is named for a runaway elephant who smashed through its doors, stole some peanuts, and spent five days on the lam.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

A Canadian POW for German soldiers during WWII where prisoners hatched an elaborate escape plan.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.

Australia's only intact colonial warship never saw action before being turned into a scenic wreck.

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The world's first military tank was designed in this English city amid the stalemate of WWI trench warfare.