This tower was created by the area's vicar as a shelter for exhausted travelers, complete with a fireplace and breathtaking views.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

One of the largest private collections of cars manufactured by the short-lived Franklin Automobile Company.

A tribute to the movie stars who fought to keep Beverly Hills separate from Los Angeles.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

Over 600 acres of idyllic open grassland honor Nebraska’s georgic storyteller.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

A 1,100-ton train fell through the floor in 1953. Workers got it patched up in just 72 hours.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

A one-stop shop for all things snowmobile, started by a snowmobile-obsessed group of friends in Wisconsin.

The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.

This majestic building, where Brazil's coffee brokers once bought and sold beans, now houses a coffee museum.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

Hidden in a hotel parking lot is a strange historical plaque erected by an obscure fraternal society.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

No one knows the origins of the mysterious stone ruins discovered on a hillside in Halifax.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.