This colorful theme park dedicated the official fruit of Maine serves sweet, tasty treats.

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.

The walls of the iconic dome are hollow and have a secret stairway.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

A whimsical brother of the nearby Fallen Angel statue takes the falling part quite literally.

North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

"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."