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Head out West for dark skies for a Milky Way so bright it casts a shadow.
Lorton, Virginia
The first national memorial to honor all women suffragists stands on land where suffragists were once imprisoned.
Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.
Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.
Mexico City, Mexico
The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.
Denver, Colorado
The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.
Washington, D.C.
Engraved in stone on a little Island are the signatures of everyone who signed the Declaration of Independence.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The world’s largest street art museum.
Glen Arbor, Michigan
Swing by this brightly painted former cannery on the water for a crash-course in local boating history.
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Commemorating Frankfurt's Jewish community and 11,908 victims of the Holocaust.
Siersthal, France
Tour part of the Maginot Line bunker system built to defend France against a German invasion.
La Oliva, Spain
This kaleidoscopic house may be the most bizarre on the island of Fuerteventura.
London, England
Art under your feet honors the history of a working-class London neighborhood.
Llantrisant, Wales
No one knows why this round stone structure was built on a hilltop in Wales.
Ses Salines, Spain
Thousands of rare and sculptural desert plants are cultivated in a surreal, open-air landscape unlike anything else on Mallorca.
Worms, Germany
St. Peter’s, in Western Germany, has stood as a masterpiece of Romanesque architecture since 1181.
Pinto, Spain
A mid-14th-century tower that served as a prison for Spanish nobles.
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