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

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

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

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

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

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

You'll find the little birds tucked within the rocks of this Australian beach.

The world's largest bamboo labyrinth is a living demonstration of the plant’s immense potential.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.

The middle finger of modernity.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

A CT scan revealed the identity of this 3,000-year-old mummy that everyone erroneously thought was female.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.