An indoor botanical garden for tropical plants looks like a giant cylinder lying on its side.

The house where Lincoln drafted the Emancipation Proclamation.

Some of the largest trees of their kinds exist throughout Williamsburg’s historic core.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

This local landmark is home to art galleries and the area's only community darkroom.

An allegedly haunted testament to a local businessman's desire for status, posterity, and charity.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

This college campus garden is home to generations of award winning flowers.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

Its original statue was deemed so ugly, locals called it “Scary Lucy.”

This museum is dedicated to a Hollywood icon.

The first and only American institution dedicated to the enduring value of comedy in the United States.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.

Meant for a railway that was never built because of the Great Chicago Fire, these piers still stand nearly 150 years after they were installed.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

This exhibit is devoted to the games and wonder that Hasbro has brought children worldwide.

The empty tomb that houses the memories of Roy Bertelli's revenge.

Abraham Lincoln's likeness rests at the top of this giant totem pole.