A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

A bygone village occupation lives on via this quaint public chalkboard.

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.

A man killed in a hunting accident is eternally guarded by a granite hound tombstone.

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

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

The former home of a mad diplomat is said to still be marked in bloody, arcane scrawls.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities.

Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.