Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

An upstate New York garage advertises its services by literally putting the automobile above all else.

This sprawling taxidermy collection celebrates the art and history of sport hunting.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

"The Dance of Fools" is Japan's largest dance festival.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.