An extra-wide chair built to accommodate the former president's big behind.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

This "thrice-cursed" island is allegedly home to Captain Kidd's lost treasure.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.