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

A gift to the children of Boston, this bronze bear represents playfulness, a spirit of love, and the warmth of big hugs.

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

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

A collection of the best toys ever made, The National Toy Hall of Fame is filled with kids, fun, and for some reason, a bird preserve.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A city park that sits on top of a freeway.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

This building is more than 250 years old and was built in one of the first towns settled in Massachusetts.

A beautifully eclectic mix of architectural styles.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is a treasure trove of rare flora.

Outside a Viking museum sits a modern-day runestone made by a Swedish runemaster using traditional methods.

The discovery of an old wall led to the creation of this fascinating museum about the city in the Middle Ages.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The simple auditorium that launched a pop icon's career into the stratosphere.

Two groundbreaking brothers from Pasadena.

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