The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Named after a lodging site that existed nearby, a bridge has existed at this location since 1455.

Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

One of 100 “Whaling Wall" murals painted in 13 different countries by a renowned marine life artist.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

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

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, VT.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

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