"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."

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.

Fill up your senses in this beautiful riverside garden, dedicated to the works of singer-songwriter John Denver.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

Home to the world's largest quilt collection dating from the 1600s through today.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.