The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

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.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

In a historic steel foundry east of the Mississippi River, thousands of wooden crates hold the architectural remnants of buildings long gone but not forgotten.

The Boston home of a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

Features unique photographic collections by women of the American West and historical attractions such as a two-story outhouse.

This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

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

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.