St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

Within this beautiful Pittsburgh cemetery, a unique headstone bears witness to one man's eternal love for Jaws.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

On this stunning Scottish island, you can walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

This small museum in a 17th-century building honors three iconic Scottish writers.