Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

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

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

"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."

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Long before ultrasounds and modern testing, medical specimens like these conjoined twins helped physicians learn about congenital anomalies.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

The final resting place of the author who gave us the Little Mermaid, the Ugly Duckling, and many more beloved fairy tales.

This contemplative sculpture made out of old machine parts is meant to be the first in a series of sculptures around the world.

The final resting place of one of the brightest physicists of the 20th century.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

Roman politician Herodes Atticus built this nymphaeum to honor his wife, whom he may have murdered.