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

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

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

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This stone in Lexington honors a formerly enslaved man who fought during the American Revolution.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

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

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

This sculpture of a fisherman spent six years at the bottom of the Schuylkill River.

Yo, Adrian!

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

Contrary to popular belief, this secluded statue doesn't represent Pennsylvania's founder.

The smallest museum in Basel, Switzerland, is a two-foot-by-two-foot window in the door of a 600-year-old house.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

The sunlight passing through the opening of this huge cave system creates a magical effect.

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.

This unusual piece of Renaissance art depicting the bodily horror of crucifixion and skin disease may have been inspired by fungus-induced hallucinations.