To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

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

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Narrowest house in Boston.

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

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

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

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

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.