Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

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

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.

Only through the lens of a microscope can visitors see the true treasures inside this museum.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

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

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

What started as three small gnomes at the base of a tree has grown into a full-blown gnome home.

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

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

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

This statue honors a pillar of the early New Haven Black community.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

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

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.