The former residence of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, an enslaved African-American woman who successfully sued for her freedom.

This picturesque cottage was the site of Ulysses S. Grant’s final and perhaps most important campaign.

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

This stained glass window designed by Tiffany Studios is hidden behind the circulation desk of a public library.

The final resting place of President Chester A. Arthur and hundreds of others from Revolutionary War soldiers to poets, politicians, and painters.

Part museum, part piece of Arthurian-inspired history, this stately hall attracts King Arthur fans from miles away.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

Much of what constituted mid-century Liverpool now litters a beach outside of town.

Now nearly dry, this lake is said to be the ancient home of the Lady of the Lake, and was once thought to be bottomless.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

Deep in the countryside lie the remains of one of the grandest Roman dwellings in Britain.

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

This aircraft museum is home to one of just three Halifax bombers in the world.

The remains of an ancient bathhouse sit inside this aptly-named pub.