An unassuming set of tiles next to a mailbox mark the former location of one of the most famous springs in the city.

The first museum in Europe dedicated to the art of origami.

Delaware's first railroad lasted only five years and spanned only 16 miles, but its ticket office has survived for two centuries.

On a tiny island in northwestern Norway, one of the country's few remaining original stave churches.

The 570-ton boulder that gave a New Jersey town its name.

A small park honors the legendary Ukrainian poet.

Over a million artifacts fill this factory-turned-museum that explores the history of American windmill production.

This museum tells a lively, personal, and wide-ranging history of jazz music.

Engravings of penises and vaginas on a boulder in the Philippines dates local tribal history back to the Bronze Age.

The design of this seemingly translucent two-story tower in northwest Cambridge was inspired by an optical illusion.

At a museum dedicated to the millenia-old rites and art of Buddhism, the Buddha's reputed tooth is held as an object of worship.

The location Geoffrey Chaucer and tale-telling pilgrims set off for Canterbury in April 1386.

A curious art piece along a lovely biking trail marks several historic floods via a series of colorful poles that represent floodwater heights.

This underground art installation recreates an ancient date honey storeroom.

This nondescript coffee shop conceals one of the wildest patisseries in New York City.

Right beyond the Uzbekistan-Tajikistan border lies the oldest human settlement in Central Asia.

Tulsa's historic skyscrapers define the oil boom era of Art Deco construction, and are known for their ornate arched lobbies.

A time capsule from 1934 Rhodesia, showing the grace and disgrace of a bygone era.

Founded by Cliff Barackman of 'Finding Bigfoot' fame, this museum is dedicated to the study of North America's unacknowledged hairy woodland hominids.

A giant metal mosquito prepares to feast.

This bottle-shaped monument pays tribute to the Appalachian drink that changed the pace of human life.

These structures hanging over the water's surface are traditional fishing machines.

This wooden statue commemorates a man who spent nearly 40 years waving hello to the people of Laguna Beach.

This 15-foot-tall sculpture stands vigil at the back entrance to the largest public park in western Massachusetts.