An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

A 150-square-foot masterpiece of American landscape art is the crown jewel of this library and art gallery in Vermont.

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, VT.

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

During World War II the Thorp building was guarded by the OSS, FBI, and US Navy because of the top-secret bombsight being produced there.

1887 era Russian Orthodox church in Minneapolis.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

This massive monument honors the first human in space.

Stalin's secret bunker.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.

An ever-growing literary collection housed in the apartment where the Russian author penned his final novel.

Specimens collected by the author of "Lolita" and self-taught lepidopterist are exhibited in his childhood home.

This nostalgic Russian museum is full of USSR cultural artifacts from the 1970s and 80s.

Unusual, mushroom-like rock formations caused by weathering and water erosion, set to disappear, according to geologists.

Museum design and public transportation meet in this unique Russian train car.

This cuddly rodent has a place of honor at a Russian institute for genetic research.

A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.

The world's first museum dedicated to the work of game-changing naturalist Charles Darwin.

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.