Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

This tiny home was originally a narrow alleyway.

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

Everyone from Alan Ginsberg to The Rolling Stones has stopped by this classic dive bar.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

A monument marks where a convent was burned by an anti-Catholic mob in 1834.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

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

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...