This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

A grave surprise in the downtown area of New England's second-largest city.

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

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

This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

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

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

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

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

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

Alexander Hamilton’s creation caused quite a bit of controversy.