A US military accident created the legends behind this Mexican version of the Bermuda Triangle.

The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.

After a battle with Congress, Webb C. Hayes installed the gates of the White House on the fence of his father's Presidential Library and Museum.

Taste the precursor of peri-peri chicken at this restaurant just outside of Lisbon.

One of London's lost rivers runs through a pipe over the tracks of this subway station.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

This historic home has survived wars, drought, and financial woes to become a California landmark.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

The radio station that's been promising to make love to you for the last 15 years—if you happen to be on one specific block in suburban New Jersey.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen's airship docked here before leading the first-ever flight over the North Pole.

The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This 19th-century island fort built to protect against an invasion by sea.

After several centuries as the home of coastal defenses, this island is full of history—and maybe ghosts.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

The middle finger of modernity.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."