This former prison now houses a lovely library devoted to Quebec's oft-maligned English-speaking history.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

A 19th century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Native American artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

An annual celebration of the infamous, unsolved skyjacking.

World's largest Christmas store.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.

This small museum is kept in a house that was integral to the genesis of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.