The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

This building is more than 250 years old and was built in one of the first towns settled in Massachusetts.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

An antique horse-drawn hearse provided French luxury for the dead in this Texan town.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

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

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

A recreated sign from the movie Jumanji has become a makeshift tribute to the film's late star.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.