The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

Genesis of modern hydroelectric power.