A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.