At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

Before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton had a tremendous humanitarian impact by locating thousands of missing soldiers.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

In the mountains of West Virginia is this perfectly preserved Art Deco train station.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

This museum is dedicated to the history and design of purses.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

A superb spot to appreciate the traditional boats of the Indian Ocean.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.