The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

The oldest restaurant in Portland serves fiery coffee cocktails and an astounding amount of turkey.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

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

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

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

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

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.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.