Public outcry led to this bridge's unique character which celebrates a giant frog battle and also sewing.

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

A treasure trove of rare and fine fabrics from around the world.

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.

More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.

Before Metro, Washington had a robust streetcar network—and you see the remains of this infrastructure if you know where to look.

Helen Keller once broke ground on this historic center for the study of technologies to benefit the hearing impaired.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

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