The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

In 1898, a New England storm that claimed more than 400 lives created this brand new stretch of shoreline.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

These powerful, if squat, Canadian waterfalls flow in different directions depending on the time of day.

One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

This museum shines a light on the true Pilgrim experience in North America.

The large vessel is known as world’s only full-scale replica of a Confederate ironclad.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.