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

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

During the American Revolution, this mansion hosted failed peace talks between the British and Americans.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

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

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

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

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.