American artist J. Alden Weir purchased this 60-acre estate for $10 and a painting.

This site contains overlapping ancient graveyards that existed about 1,000 years apart.

This Scottish castle has witnessed clan rivalries, Jacobite uprisings, whisky smuggling, and more.

A series of three shiny letters mark the boundary of an old refuge for those being pursued by debt collectors.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

England's largest white horse isn't even white.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

A modest Alabama recording studio where some of music’s biggest voices found their sound.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

Underneath this water pump, Annie Sullivan helped Keller speak her first words.

A mosaic made of materials gathered from this Brooklyn community adorns the walls of this tunnel.

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

The last remaining 19th-century mile marker along the historic Ocean Parkway.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

Preserving the memory of the narrow railroads that once crisscrossed the state of Maine.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

Forrest Gump ran past this iconic Maine lighthouse in his cinematic cross-country journey.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

A series of fish plaques that are embedded in the malls of Ocean Parkway.

The only quarter of the Old City not dedicated to a major world religion.