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

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

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

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

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

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

"Congress may voluntarily remain in session throughout the summer, in order that our Congressmen may be protected from the intolerable discomforts and dangers of the ordinary outdoor weather!”

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.