Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

One man's quest for the ultimate road trip vehicle.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

On a winding Vienna side street, one museum has turned their windows into a monument to history’s peace-minded heroes.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

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

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.