A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

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

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

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

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

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

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

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

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

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.

A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

Its unique collection details the history of the state's svelte railroads.