"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

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

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

"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."

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

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