A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

America's first federal monument.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

Sand dunes from a glacial lake are preserved in this woodland park.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

The home of a famed utopian science fiction author has been preserved long after his predicted future in the year 2000.

This diner's a kitschy dreamland for anyone whose heart is stuck in the 1980s.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

This 19th century hydroelectric powerhouse was the first of its kind.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.