In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

This splendid tomb may look fantastic, but there's nothing in it...

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.

A gas station has taken the place of the home of the 19th American President.

This presidential tomb was not dedicated until years after Harding's death due to personal controversy.

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

Memorial to the lost dead of Gdansk, whose resting places were destroyed during World War II.

The relics are stored in a silver reliquary, where they can be seen through glass.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.