The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

More than 200 unconventional musical instruments that anyone can play.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

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

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

"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."

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

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