Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruous in rural Vermont.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

The "Bridge Over the Atlantic" lets you cross the waterway in mere seconds.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

This macabre monument atop an ancient well gives a nod to a brutal episode in Scottish clan history.

A hidden tunnel leads to a medieval queen's shrine buried beneath a parking lot.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This small-town library was the first in the world to be entirely supported by taxation.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote the Jungle Book is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

A curious structure built just for the birds.

Series of underground houses inhabited continuously for centuries.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.