When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

This Birnam-based garden honors the legacy of 19th-century children’s book author Beatrix Potter.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

A soon-to-be-forgotten roadside spectacle loaded with local lore.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

This private home is famous for appearing in the cult-classic "Twin Peaks" series.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The abandoned remains of a once popular zoo, and the grave of the last known Tasmanian Tiger.

An enormous overgrown greenhouse teeming with graffiti and wildlife.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head as he died can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.