A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Color-coded signs direct drivers on a network of routes designed to avoid Pittsburgh traffic.

Sections of the iconic limestone columns have been left uncleaned as a reminder of the city's polluted past.

Once the most painted on object in the world, this short campus fence is well on its way to being so again.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

A little Lego easter egg is hidden underwater in the Boston Tea Party tableau at Miniland.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

This is the house that spite built.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."