This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.

At Macon’s oldest cemetery two members of Allman Brothers are buried side by side.

This historic oak tree has been around for over 300 years and might last for 300 more so long as it doesn't fall apart first.

A white oak with property rights.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.

A solar-powered primary school inspires hope and experimentation in a country ripe for energy innovation.

A 11-foot former president stands on a Kosovo street that also bears his name.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.