This sculpture commemorates the first instance of an American president pardoning a turkey.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

A tribute to the truly loyal dog who waited outside a hospital for his owner to come back.

A lone tower rises above the cliffs in a city park, offering fantastic views of the Connecticut landscape.

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

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World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.