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

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

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

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.