This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

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

A serene plaza that commemorates one of the Granite State's most iconic figures.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.

A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

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

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.