The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

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

This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.