Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

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

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

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

The last remaining attraction from Paragon Park.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

This is the largest cemetery in Ireland and the first cemetery museum in the world.

Ireland's most remarkable collection of these curious cone-shaped houses is worth the buzz.

This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

A remarkable feat of Victorian engineering across the Firth of Forth.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?