This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

America's first public mental health facility.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

A man's home is his castle.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

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

"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 Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.