Its 27 graveyards represent the many nationalities and ethnic groups that voyaged to this wilderness in the late 19th century.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

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

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

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

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Because there's no place like home.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.