A home built and settled by a refugee of the Salem Witch Trials.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

One of the first amphibian migration tunnels in the United States encourages a tradition that has inspired Amherst residents for decades.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

This modern New Zealand attraction honors ancient forms of astronomy and scientific understanding.

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

An abandoned World War II bunker is part of a chain that runs throughout Washington.