The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

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

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

3/4-scale model of the White House in Atlanta, Georgia.

This stone is a marker of one millionaire's personal vendetta against gravity.

Nature (and graffiti) reclaim this old waterworks that has been surrounded by a bike path and network of walking trails.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.