This Tudor-style mansion is home to the first roadside confectioner in the United States.

All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.

This renovated Art Nouveau bathroom from 1905 is worth the price of admission.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Who is this marble man, perpetually creeping up the steps of his own mausoleum?

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

Immortalized in bronze, this frazzled student will be glued to his screen for centuries.

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.