A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

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

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

At just 51 feet and 10 inches long, it's the shortest street in England.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

Over a thousand musical instruments are on display, from bagpipes and harpsichords to drums and the sinuous serpent.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

The abandoned fishing village was swept right into the sea.

An unassuming churchyard is the resting place of a pioneering surveyor and reluctant namesake of a mountain.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

The birthplace of the builder of the Statue of Liberty is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

An unusual monument to a gentle giant who became a Kyrgyz hero.

Deep in the countryside lie the remains of one of the grandest Roman dwellings in Britain.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."