Celebrating an art form with a collection of puppets from all over the world.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

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

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Get past the gatekeeper's apartment and enter an elaborate hoax of a restaurant with a Masonic feel.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.