A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

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

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

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

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

The final resting place of a wealthy landowner who helped create the largest public park in Western Massachusetts.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.