The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

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

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

This location of a Mexican chain restaurant has a unique location: an old jail.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.