The life of one of America's pre-eminent painters is frozen in time in the home where he lived, worked, and died.

This stone monument marks the beginning of Portugal's presence in Brazil.

Its collection details the experiences of the largest Japanese community outside Japan.

A labyrinthine museum chronicling the history of African culture in Brazil.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

This enthusiast-led facility is the only museum in the country dedicated to the preservation of weather artifacts.

This rural museum highlights Wyoming's era of trapping and fur trades, and hosts the annual Green River Rendezvous in July.

A nearly abandoned Jewish settlement perched atop a hill in the heart of Yemen.

The home of Mahatma Gandhi during part of the 21 years he spent living in South Africa is now a guest house.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

A sobering account of the vibrant multicultural neighborhood that was destroyed under apartheid.

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

The model behind the iconic 3D test model.

Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.

The last standing silent film studio in Jacksonville is the last remnant of the city's once-thriving movie industry.

A free museum that memorializes the deadliest river flood in American history, and the civil engineering efforts to tame the Mississippi River.

These unusual paintings give thanks to the saints and deities who granted people favors and miracles.

It's believed this golden brick is part of the legendary lost Aztec treasure.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

An ancient tunnel in Jerusalem built to redirect water in the event of a siege is one of history’s great architectural innovations.

Beneath this headstone lie the severed body parts of three individuals who were caught up in a bloody period of Scottish history.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

Beautifully decorated tarot cards from the Middle Ages.

A reconstituted ancestral village of the Huron-Wendat Nation.