Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

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

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

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

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

This graceful little figure is a one-of-a-kind version of the cherished character.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

It was founded by Ralph Nader to educate the public about an often-maligned area of law.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

This spot memorializes one of the greatest plays in NFL history, unless you happen to be a Raiders fan.

A museum and research center dedicated to preserving the history of Rolls-Royce and Bentley motorcars.

Tiny observatory made big contributions to the study of the Earth's motion.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

Decorative shell walls built in the 1940s sit atop an ancient midden created by the Calusa Native Americans.

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.