Where the Millerites gathered to watch the end of the world in 1844—and left disappointed.

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

A gazebo that inspired the fifth episode of the "Twilight Zone" still stands in the creator's hometown

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

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

This formerly abandoned amusement park includes a classic carousel and a replica of Mark Twain's famous hut-like Elmira study.

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

These unique rock formations were created during the Ice Age.

On the outskirts of Pennsylvania’s capital city, a reminder of the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

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

A memorial to the 1913 tragedy that helped protect the workers of the future.

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

This buzzy, award-winning building hovers 85 feet above the ground on a dozen colorful stilts.

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

A free museum of Toronto’s untold music history hidden inside a drugstore.

A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.

Positioned outside a church, this sinister folkloric figure incited protests in both 1902 and 2002.

This contemplative sculpture made out of old machine parts is meant to be the first in a series of sculptures around the world.

This pair of gilded girls atop an Art Deco building in Copenhagen were built to function as a weather indicator.

The only surviving piece of Copenhagen's 16th-century defensive wall.

Denmark’s oldest bakery is home to the 'Wednesday Snail,' one of the best cinnamon rolls on the planet.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.