One of the earliest graveyards in the region.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

Three gardens with toilets and urinals filled with bright flowers started as a protest against zoning rules.

A giant roll of mints marks the birthplace of one of America's most famous candy brands.

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

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

This bronze sculpture was inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife embracing after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

An interesting look into 18th-century American history.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

This roadside dinosaur park offered up lumpy neon thunder lizards in the name of kitsch and education.

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

A gigantic 10-foot tall stone man.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

Recovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gang.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.