In addition to showing films, this one-screen arthouse cinema from the late 1940s is a museum of old film equipment.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

This World War II airfield enjoys a second life as a public park.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

The world's only bushplane museum captures the spirit of the early planes and pilots and their contributions to northern life in Canada.

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.

Every plane, auto, and bicycle in this collection is kept in working order and are regularly demonstrated to the public.

One of the country's best automotive museums and home to one of the first motor vehicles.

It would take you approximately an hour and a half to walk to the end of Mexico's largest pier.

Remote, volcanic island that Darwin, Hooker, and the Royal Navy shaped into a thriving, artificial ecosystem.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

A surprisingly beautiful abandoned World War II military base in East Greenland.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

More than 8,000 drinking jugs say “Cheers!” to a guy named Toby.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

First planned industrial community in the United States.