This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.

A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.

One of Amsterdam's narrowest houses is located right across the canal from its widest.

This 1920s railway depot is now home to two unique museums complete with a miniature train ride.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

This exoskeleton was gifted to Rutgers University by Japan for its role in educating some of the first Japanese citizens to study outside the country.

One of the last-standing and most prominent structures from a long-lost colonial port community.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

Historic poems about the noble act of defecating have been preserved on the wall of this old convent.

The ruined abbey includes a rare surviving example of a monastic latrine.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."