This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history, this memorial has faced its fair share of backlash.

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

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

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

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

This baseball diamond was home to the Rockford Peaches, a team featured in the hit film "A League of Their Own."

This unassuming city park is home to three different types of Native American mounds.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.