The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

Located right outside of Vienna, visitors can take in expansive views of an ethereal forest.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.