Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

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

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

Tribute to the famous Notre Dame football coach who died in a plane crash.

This lesser-known geographic marker was the reference point for all surveys of the continent for 75 years.

This historic church is named for abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and the ruse to arm his fellow abolitionists.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

Stories of sightless fish and ghostly cowboys are only a fraction of the legends surrounding this Kansas sinkhole.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

Cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.