Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

Martha's Vineyard's most beloved speakeasy sells late-night pastries.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

The largest living museum in the Northeast recreates life from the Early Republic period complete with costumed historians and reenactors.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

Two artist-designed restrooms are part of the collection at the Smith College Museum of Art.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

Money may not grow on trees, but it can be dispensed by one.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.