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

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

"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."

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

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

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

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

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

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

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.