The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

An imposing pair of sphinxes stand guard outside this Egyptian Revival tomb.

The largest piece of cut lead crystal adorned a grave for 75 years and is now the shining star of a glass museum.

This quarter-mile tunnel under the Bluff in Pittsburgh bends at a 45-degree angle.

Live chainsaw carvings of tiki statues aim to keep a tradition with ancient roots alive in this small Delaware town.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

This giant disembodied horse head seems to balance impossibly on its nose.

This building at the south end of the boardwalk was once home to the U.S. Life-Saving Service and the U.S. Coast Guard before being rescued itself.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

One of Gettysburg’s least visited battlefield memorials is off the beaten path, but worth a visit.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

Could it have picked a better place to land?

Where the oil industry began.

The penultimate and final resting places of British General Edward Braddock—minus a few bits and pieces.

"Where the ducks walk on fish."

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

This restored house is like a time capsule of the president's unconventional inauguration.

A beautifully designed asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center with a ghost story or two.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.