This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

A woodland close to England's "most haunted village" has been the site of many unexplained events and deaths.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

A bygone village occupation lives on via this quaint public chalkboard.

Play everything you see at a museum dedicated to a town's historic organ industry.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000-year-old wood at this peaceful site.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

The avant-garde design was able to bypass strict Soviet regulations on architecture.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.