The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

This massive airship factory is so large that it has its own indoor weather.

A retro walk through the history of the tube.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage train station tiles.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.

The childhood home of a Hollywood legend.

Hundreds of 19th-century characters descend upon an Ohio town every autumn.

The crash of this great airship signaled the beginning of the end for dirigibles.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

Though difficult to access, this stunning cave has a place in Scotland's poetic history.

A pub that is literally in the middle of nowhere, but continues to do business.

The oldest natural aquarium in the United Kingdom.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

“It has nae lugs!”