The drawbridge used in the filming of the movie 'Annie' has been in the open position as it was in the movie for decades.

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

Here be dragons.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.

One of the last-standing and most prominent structures from a long-lost colonial port community.

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.