Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.

America's first public mental health facility.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

A giant lumpy candle serves as a beacon for this highly scented pit stop.

The world's largest anatomically accurate brain sculpture.

An ode to filmmaker George A. Romero, who used the mall to film an iconic horror movie.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.