Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

This museum is dedicated to the most famous Irish writers in history.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

This memorial garden is the final resting place of many beloved pets including that of a famous explorer.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

This building is more than 250 years old and was built in one of the first towns settled in Massachusetts.

This art display in Dedham honors a local fish, and is dedicated to the volunteers who restored the canal.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

An antique horse-drawn hearse provided French luxury for the dead in this Texan town.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

A recreated sign from the movie Jumanji has become a makeshift tribute to the film's late star.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.