Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

This sound-art installation features songs composed using only the Mid-Hudson Bridge as an instrument.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

If it hadn't been caught in time, a flaw in the design of this Manhattan skyscraper could have led to its collapse.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

This elephant kraal is the only one remaining in Thailand, dating back to the 16th century when these massive mammals were integral players in war and trade.

Monkeys lounge around at this 13th century temple.

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

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

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

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

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

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.