The place where the great marine explorer first learned to work underwater is not where you'd expect.

Dispersed across 45-acres, 39 structures house a massive collection celebrating American Folk Art.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.