Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

A self-explanatory attraction allows fans to respectfully remember and honor a comedy legend.

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

This "life-size" depiction of Mickey Mouse as a half-lobster is both whimsical and a bit creepy, standing guard over the Boston waterfront.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

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

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

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

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

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

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.

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

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.