An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

High winds can make this one scary landing.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

The 43-mile route crosses through six islands with gorgeous views of the Seto Inland Sea.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.