A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

A popular day's outing in Bovington consists of watching military tank driving practice.

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.

Where Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

What was once the largest NFL stadium.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

A faithful reproduction of Al-Jazari's enormous water clock.

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

A tidal bore with its own festival.

An ancient Chinese temple where even the emperor dressed like a farmer in the name of the harvest.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

This historic Chinese tower was said to have been haunted by fox spirits but is now haunted by a grisly murder.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.