Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

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

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

A hill carving of the legendary dragon that terrorized the village of Bures in the Middle Ages.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

More than 200 unconventional musical instruments that anyone can play.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.