An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

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

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

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

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

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

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

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

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

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

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

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

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

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