The largest museum dedicated to Italian Americans on the East Coast is located in a 100-year-old church.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

Offering an enjoyable alternative to the standard hellacious post office trip.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.

Celebrating the greatest pugilists the world has ever known.

Thousands of bottles that have held everything from poison to perfume make up the collection of this small museum.

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

The summit Roosevelt conquered before he descended to become The Chief.

A hamlet full of permanent Christmas spirit holds one of the earliest theme parks in the United States.

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

At the tallest peak in Colorado, an electrifying mix of thin air, lightning, and rivalry.