An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

Puerto Rico's oldest rum producer started its 140-year-old business with "a little barrel."

This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

Legend tells how a Spanish soldier disappeared from this isolated sentry box without a trace.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

A monument park dedicated to the influential Beat Generation author and poet, Jack Kerouac.

This hotel was the site of major events in sports and radio history. It was also used as a detention center during World War II.

The mouldering manses of wealthy colonials still pock the streets of a Curaçao neighborhood.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

"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."