A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

This location of a Mexican chain restaurant has a unique location: an old jail.

The only one of New Hampshire's original 14 World War II watchtowers to survive in near-original condition.

This area was once known for being a lawless haven for rough-and-tumble sailors, earning the maritime-themed nickname "the black sea."

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

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

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

The childhood home of one of Ohio's favorite sons, pilot and war hero Eddie Rickenbacker.

This small plaza encourages people diagnosed with cancer to never give up hope.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

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

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

One of the largest wooden ships ever built is honored by a steel sculpture evoking her once-superlative scale.

Preserving the memory of the narrow railroads that once crisscrossed the state of Maine.

Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.

One of the country's best automotive museums and home to one of the first motor vehicles.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.