A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

The gravestones in this historic cemetery are carved with mysterious faces.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

Also known as the Osaka Garden, this garden was originally built in 1893 as part of the World's Columbian Exposition.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

A small cemetery chapel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1906.

The oldest house in Galena, Illinois, now is a reminder of when this city was the world's lead mining capital.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Vermont's hills are alive with the sound of music at this historic hotel.

The oldest covered railroad bridge still standing in the United States.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

This New England drive-in was built to straddle the border between two states.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.