This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

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

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

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

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

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

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

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

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.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.

A Red Hook dive bar that is holding onto its roots.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.