A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

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

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

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

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

A museum of anything and everything Stooge.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

An ear-piercing buzzer calls lawmakers to a vote with a series of long and short rings to form coded messages.

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.