America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

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

A bygone village occupation lives on via this quaint public chalkboard.

Inside this community-run museum, visitors are treated to the history of toys and games.

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

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

Once the largest gravity dam in the world.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

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

A curiosity-seeker's paradise set inside a three-story historic school house.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

Twice a day, the water of the Petitcodiac River flows upstream in a surfable wave.

A mysterious spot where the laws of gravity seem not to apply.

These powerful, if squat, Canadian waterfalls flow in different directions depending on the time of day.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.