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

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

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

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This location holds the truth to what truly happened that faithful night.

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.

A monument to the first person to sail around the world solo, nowhere close to where he was born, set sail, or landed.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

A small, red building located along a state highway where the 18th Vice President made shoes in his youth.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.