At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

A billionaire heiress' menagerie of animals were lovingly laid to rest on the grounds of her former estate.

Come for the springs; stay for the mud bath.

Thomas Edison's home and final resting place also boasts an impressive garage, where some of the earliest electric cars are on display.

Live chainsaw carvings of tiki statues aim to keep a tradition with ancient roots alive in this small Delaware town.

Randy Senna's Fascination and retro arcade is home to the last Fascination game in New Jersey, and one of seven remaining as of 2021.

A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.

A hole-in-the-wall antiquities museum in one of Tokyo's most popular megamalls.

One of the finest examples of a black soil prairie that was barely saved by the Great Depression.

This museum dedicated to cartography is housed in a former 17th-century convent.

An animatronic tribute to a legendary half-man, half-fish creature.

This museum dedicated to the famous comedy duo is located in the town where Stan Laurel was born.

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.

A lesser-known sister to Paris's world-famous museum, located within a Buddhist sculpture paradise.

The oldest academic institution in Japan provides a glimpse of university life during the days of the samurai.

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

The site where the poet Matsuo Bashō read one of the first haiku that comprise his famous travelogue.

One in a pair of subterranean caves created by an ancient eruption of Mount Fuji.

Although it has never been a secret ninja base, this shrine still has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.

Home to the world's oldest wooden building.

A kitsch shrine dedicated to the ogre-slaying folktale hero born from a peach.