Places attoseconds Wants to Go

A disarmed 40-foot nuclear missile on display outside a North Carolina church.

After the comedian dissed a Connecticut town on his show, they named a sewage treatment plant after him.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

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

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

Legend says that Wade the Giant scooped up a handful of earth to throw at his wife, leaving behind this round valley.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.