The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

This factory made "health corsets" that were a step towards liberating women's bodies.

Retirement home where the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West passed away.

A portrait of the Charter Oak hangs in a frame made from the Charter Oak.

American artist J. Alden Weir purchased this 60-acre estate for $10 and a painting.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."

Connecticut sites linked to the only trial to ever use demonic possession as a criminal defense.

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.