A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Take a step inside the picturesque studio of America’s most renowned sculptor.

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

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

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

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

This stately 19th century library pushed architectural boundaries at a time when the public library movement was just taking off.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

A museum and research center dedicated to preserving the history of Rolls-Royce and Bentley motorcars.

This massive sycamore tree has been labeled as one of the largest in the state.

A local prank turned town icon.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

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