This former farm In northern Iceland is now a museum, where visitors can tour beautifully-preserved turf houses.

This excellent museum recreates the boom days of the herring rush in the "Atlantic Klondike."

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

Instead of solid circles, the stoplights in this northern Icelandic town have glowing red hearts.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

A tunnel that brings more than a century of history to life from the deepest parts of the Niagara Gorge.

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

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

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

A fake 1930s-euro-style hotel with an indoor mini golf course.

Not only is this nature preserve the largest protected freshwater island on the East Coast, but it’s also a stronghold of Gullah living.

A wildlife-filled oasis just off the coast of Myrtle Beach.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.