This monument gives insight into how lost children were found in Edo-period Tokyo.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

These locks on North America’s oldest canal are named after a porcine rock formation.

A 1995 memorial acknowledges the tremendous contributions of Vietnamese refugees to Canada.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

Now a public art piece, this curious metal feature originally advertised a tinsmith's services.

The mastermind behind this palatial hotel perished on the Titanic weeks before its grand opening.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.