Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

New York's oldest magic store.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

Hawai'i's oldest wooden house was shipped around Cape Horn from Boston in 1820.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

Sit at the "Disney table,” where Walt and his team of "imagineers" once dined on the regular.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

The ship that got left behind.

A landmark for a trailblazer for female architects and the designer of one of the most famous and opulent buildings in California.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

A museum dedicated to restoring vintage aircraft, located at a working airport.