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

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

A dazzling display of lights and crystals.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

Five mythical trolls have taken up residence in woods and hidden on paths at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

Since 1956, this quintessentially New England seafood shack has been boiling its lobsters in seawater over wood fires.

A charming museum of natural history featuring dioramas and exhibits made entirely by college students.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.

In the middle of a busy airport, a statue honoring the astronaut who told Houston that Apollo 13 had a problem.

This glass skywalk offers vertiginous views down the volcanic cliffs to the beach below.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."

Europe's oldest still-operational tea farm also boasts a spectacular view.

Legend has it the lovelorn tears of a princess and a shepherd boy formed the blue and green twin lakes in the Azores archipelago.

One of few vertical lava tubes in the world accessible by foot.