An extra-wide chair built to accommodate the former president's big behind.

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

A parade of antique steeds offers a quirky ride through history.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

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

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

One of Philadelphia's largest murals resides hidden under this bridge.

Once the world's largest reinforced concrete structure, this abandoned bridge now beckons urban explorers.