This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The 28,000-year-old specimen is remarkably intact.

Corn-inthian columns with a uniquely American take on neoclassical architecture.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

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

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.