The location of this historic castle was inspired by a donkey.

This site contains overlapping ancient graveyards that existed about 1,000 years apart.

The world's shortest street was created by an awkwardly placed hotel.

Cut into a sheer cliff face, these stairs are the only way to reach a secluded Scottish harbor.

A collection of short standing stones covers this hillside.

A castle in the Scottish Highlands has been continuously inhabited since the 1300s.

This rare surviving broch is one of Scotland's most impressive Bronze Age structures.

The sign marks one of the endpoints to mainland Britain's longest overland travel route.

The most northern place on the mainland of Great Britain.

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

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Measuring approximately 200 feet long, Swampy is the world's largest alligator-shaped building.

Retirement home where the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West passed away.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

Restoring faith in humanity one pie at a time by selling stellar baked goods on an honor system.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

An obelisk marks the farmhouse where the founder of Mormonism was born.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote the Jungle Book is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.