The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

The location of one of the first private Catholic schools in the country, providing a valuable sanctuary during the tumultuous period when Protestant and Catholic students were at odds.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

A monument marks where a convent was burned by an anti-Catholic mob in 1834.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

"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 thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

Step back in time on this preserved 1800s farm.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.