She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

This clock tower is all that remains of Bird Hall, constructed by one of the founding families of this Massachusetts town.

America's first public lending library began with a gift from Benjamin Franklin.

A stone marker dedicated to the “Father of American Education.”

This pavement line and accompanying statue commemorates the starting point for the world's oldest annual marathon.

The largest living museum in the Northeast recreates life from the Early Republic period complete with costumed historians and reenactors.

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

This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

The Netherlands' first car tunnel has an unusually rectangular shape.

Inside this metro station is a section of the city's former medieval fortification.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this Santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

A massive stone fox oversees a Rotterdam elementary school crosswalk.

A giant floating rubber duck-bunny painted with a different design every year.

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

A grave surprise in the downtown area of New England's second-largest city.

On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.

A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.