A glimpse into life in 1830s Tokyo, back during the heyday of the Tokugawa shogunate.

A boat slowly sinking into the Essex mud flats bearing the names of the disappeared that haunt the Thames Estuary.

This 'terrible lizard' was one of the world's first animatronic dinosaurs.

The oldest civic library in Italy can trace its foundation back to 1619.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

This historic home has survived wars, drought, and financial woes to become a California landmark.

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

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

This museum honors the farming past of the “Salad Bowl of the World.”

A mud brick kasbah with a history of lavishness and traitorship.

A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families

World's largest film studio, where visitors tour the decaying sets that litter the harsh desert environment.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

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

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

This 30-foot-high statue of Christ was intended to be part of a prehistoric theme park.

As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.

Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

A memorial to those who donated their bodies to science.