This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

A portion of the old Pirates stadium over which a defining home run once flew still stands even after the rest of the stadium was torn down.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.