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This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

A historic bridge no one is allowed to cross.

This castle constructed in 1928 was crafted from drawings of Lismore Castle in Ireland.

The oldest philatelic museum in the United States.

Try a classic Necco candy bar being resurrected in a small suburban shop.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

This stone in Lexington honors a formerly enslaved man who fought during the American Revolution.

This historic Massachusetts tavern played a critical role in the start of the American Revolution.

The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Inside this museum, Christians were imprisoned when the Romans controlled Gaul.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

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

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.