This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.

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

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.

"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."

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

This statue of the great Argentinian car driver is located near a famous curve of the Monaco Grand Prix.

The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.

This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.