This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

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

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

The most confusing clock in New York.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

At the very tippity-top of Europe is a cliff from which you can view the midnight sun.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.