An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.