Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

A creative deviation in this post office's design was once a source of controversy.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

At this farm in upstate New York, the former president plotted his reelection campaign.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

The hero of the women's suffrage movement birth home is now a museum dedicated to her legacy.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

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.