This landmark Victorian folly rewards visitors with spectacular views over the Peak District.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

This unusual subway stop was originally a real estate office.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

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.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

Poet William Blake penned some of his most famous work during his brief stay at this beloved country cottage.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.