This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

This hotel was the site of major events in sports and radio history. It was also used as a detention center during World War II.

Second largest wastewater treatment plant in the country.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

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