Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The humble field where the first Major League Baseball game was played.

A rotating bridge that carries a little canal over a larger one.

Manchester's abandoned train depot lingers in a post-industrial purgatory.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

A tiny, hidden alleyway dedicated to the father of meteorology.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

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Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.