One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

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

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

An architecturally unique lighthouse that had to be lifted up and moved to avoid falling in the sea.

Eco-friendly island mansion.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.