Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

The actor best known for slapstick comedy is memorialized in his home town.

This lookout tower built in the 1930s is now an in-demand cabin with what might be the best view of the Seneca State Forest.

A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

An iconic Soviet statue of working-class people.

With over 10,000 lights, this engineering marvel lights up the city after dark.

Take a step into the workshop where Edison and his employees revolutionized the world.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.