"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."

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

Semaphore saints, a golden dragon's head, and a stone carved with religious warnings all call this cathedral home.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

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

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

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

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.