An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

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

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

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

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

An architecturally unique lighthouse that had to be lifted up and moved to avoid falling in the sea.

Off a hiking trail in Rhode Island stands a picturesque memorial to a long-forgotten war.

This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

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

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.