One of the town's most famous residents, holding one of his most famous creations.

In England, an 18th-century water-powered workshop still stands.

The house in the middle of the motorway.

17th century puritan church with connections to the Salem Witch Trials.

This historic textile mill has been repurposed as a shopping outlet, which houses a textile museum that celebrates its industrial past.

80 years of the Battle of Peasholm on a small English lake.

A wooden statue commemorates a local celebrity who became a national sensation for his height.

This 1913 single-screen cinema is a charming survivor in the age of the multiplex.

This 2,000-year-old tree inspired the nursery rhyme "Rock-a-bye Baby."

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

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

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

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The UK's largest private house was the subject of a long-lasting political dispute.

One of the last remnants of the Bessemer process that revolutionized steel production during the industrial age.

The red letters in the literary pavement leading to the library form a mysterious code.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

The world’s largest LED display, built over an F1 race circuit.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

This seemingly random 30-foot statue of an oryx in Qatar's capital was a mascot for the 2006 Asian Games.