A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

This classic steam-powered train takes tourists on a nostalgic trip around the Connecticut River Valley.

Public outcry led to this bridge's unique character which celebrates a giant frog battle and also sewing.

Made of bronze and wearing a blue gown, this lady sat in the same location in the Yantic Cemetery for more than 119 years.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

A large camera obscura, constructed entirely from digitally fabricated components.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

An overgrown and abandoned tuberculosis ward resides in the midst of a quaint modern neighborhood.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.

An abandoned 146-acre summer resort slowly being reclaimed by nature.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Collection of antique science instruments displayed in recreated 1870-1930 laboratories.

It took over 100 years to decode this enigmatic epitaph for two buried brides.

One patriotic farmer's ode to the 9/11 tragedy remains even after the farm changed hands.