Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

An exotic reptile facility showcasing some of the rarest, most venomous snakes in the world.

A rare set of strings by famed instrument maker Antonio Stradivarius is on display in the Royal Palace.

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

A memorial to the 1913 tragedy that helped protect the workers of the future.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

Rising out of a clearing in New Jersey's Pine Barrens is an Aztec-inspired monument to the "Lindbergh of Mexico."

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawai'i.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.