Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

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

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

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

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

This is the house that spite built.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

Human ancestor’s 3.6 million year-old footprints.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.