Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

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

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.