An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

A forlorn fishing village on the coast of Labrador, full of shipwrecks and Spanish gold.

Site of the first official transatlantic wireless communications.

The biggest drug trafficking passage between Mexico and the U.S.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

Scene of the grisly murder of two Norwegian women in 1873.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

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

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

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.