Follow the steps, and this roadside artwork will teach you how to dance.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

Montreal's giant farmer's market is a foodie's best friend, especially in the winter months.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

The site of the Andover Witch Hunts, which ended with more witch accusations and arrests than Salem.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

Dedicated to "the father of U.S. life insurance."

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

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

This small glass cube is a peaceful out-of-the-way sanctuary at the busy airport.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

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