This giant urban staircase was built to keep the city's brave fighting men from getting waylaid in the red light district.

One of the oldest bank museums in Europe showcases unusual currencies of the world and other money-related miscellanea.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

A window into the luxurious lives led by the landed gentry of Minsk before the 1917 Revolution.

A fantastic assortment of China's finest and most disturbing wares.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

The same water that fills a luxury resort’s pools feeds these free hot springs in the rainforest.

An intentionally grounded cargo ship remains half-buried in the sand.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

Near the summit of Mount Washington, a stone monument remembers a life lost to one of the mountain's infamous storms.

Rock face that shares a name with Mary Shelley's famous doctor.

This cabin survived a landslide that killed its owners.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.