Mary Rowlandson's kidnapping ordeal became one of the nation's first best-selling books.

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

A little-known mural reveals the hydrological reason for Atlanta's founding in this location.

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.