Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

This manor in the woods memorializes one of the greatest birders of a generation.

Its original statue was deemed so ugly, locals called it “Scary Lucy.”

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history, this memorial has faced its fair share of backlash.

This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.