An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

An ornate aviary built during the Victorian trend of collecting exotic birds.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

This ruined medieval castle was the scene of Lord Robert Dudley’s seductive reception for Queen Elizabeth I.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

World's largest Christmas store.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

The scant remains of an expansive indigenous civilization can be seen at this Arkansas state park.

A wild trout fishery in Arkansas.

The middle finger of modernity.

This garden among the Florentine hills is complete with a meditation path and works of poetry.