A church now sits over the site of one of the worst urban disasters of early 19th-century America.

In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

The eccentricities of a former lord include painted pigeons of his manor house, a series of pointless plaques, and a folly built simply to peeve the public.

Now a retreat center for the faithful, it once provided training for clergy—but it began as a farm owned by a famed financier and his opera singer wife, who built a surprise in the backyard.

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

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

This chicken coop pays homage to a classic architectural style made famous throughout the southern United States.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

This brick-lined pedestrian walkway was once a railway tunnel used during the Civil War.