The story I remember most clearly was the one that depicted a group of men and women struggling to escape the planet in a space ship before the nuclear holocaust. It was only at the very end that we learned they were on some other planet - hoping to escape to Earth!!!!
And who can forget the other story in which an all-powerful alien comes to earth to present a book entitled "How Best to Serve Man", and only at the end, after a number of humans have climbed aboard his space craft to return home with him, do we learn that the book is a cook book!!!
And then of course the story of the librarian with the inch-thick glasses played by Burgess Meredith - who only wanted to be left alone to browse Free Republic....er...read his books. Then one day, thanks to some sort of nuclear war, he finds himself alone with his beloved books - however his glasses lay broken on the ground.
Twilight Zone was a classic indeed!
That is similar to a fantasy I often have had lately of being able to go back in time to the year 1900 with an empty mansion so that I could relive the entire century. Of course, the fantasy involves not aging so that I will return to the present 102 years later at my current age! The idea is that I would have 100+ years to absorb as many books as I could and build a huge collection of 20th century memorabilia such as books, newspapers, music and even baseball cards that would gradually fill my huge mansion.
I don't wear glasses so I would have it made!